Quotes About Exactness

Some is not a number; soon is not a time. Here's the number: 100,000. Here's the time: June 14, 2006—9 a.m.

Never had I heard from my elders that what I thus did was bad. It is true that there are the ten commandments of the Bible; but the commandments are made only to be recited before the priests at examinations, and even then are not as exacting as the commandments in regard to the use of ut in conditional propositions.

Because the spirit of the gift shuns exactness and because gifts do not necessarily move reciprocally (and therefore do not produce the adversary roles of creditor and debtor), courts of law would be rightly perplexed as to how to adjudicate a case of ingratitude. Contracts

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

I like to say jiu-jitsu is like mathematics. It has to be exact otherwise you don't have it.

Es mejor estar equivocado que ser impreciso. —FREEMAN DYSON

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

Science repulses the indefinite.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Words know that there is always the right word and no other word will do.

There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins.

my delight in philology, my insistence on having language clear-cut and exact, impels me, when someone says it is cold and someone else that it is warm, to look at the thermometer and say: "Gentlemen, it is 69 degrees Fahrenheit in this room.

Me, I'm a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

I had always followed the careful rules laid down by Harry, my cop foster father, who taught me how to be what I am with modesty and exactness.

Charles had promised, the correct size.

T]hey are trying to find the right word, to choose, finally, the one that is most exact, most incisive. It's a process of sifting, which is exhausting and, at times, exasperating. Writers can't avoid it. The heart of the craft lies there.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

The finite and the infinite are "incommensurable" (not related even by proper analogy); there is no proportion between them. Precision, or clarity, or exactness, is simply impossible here. All distinctions between

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

La mia ricerca dell'esattezza si biforca in due direzioni. Da una parte la riduzione degli avvenimenti contingenti a schemi astratti con cui si possano compiere operazioni e dimostrare teoremi; e dall'altra parte lo sforzo delle parole per render conto con la maggior precisione possibile dell'aspetto sensibile delle cose.

The differences in the two thinking styles, as Baron-Cohen describes them, are intriguing. "Systematizing involves exactness, excellent attention to local detail," and an attraction to fixed rules independent of context, he says. "To systematize, you need detachment." 21 (Baron describes autism as an "extreme" male brain.)

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.