Quotes About Precision

You can't go faster when you avoid technical excellence.

Water boils at 212 degrees. At 211 degrees it's just hot. Every degree is needed.

Such simple questions as How many feet are in a mile? or What's the number of square feet in an acre? produce the not-so-simple answers of 5,280 and 43,560.

He wore glasses and you immediately noticed his eyes. They were unusual because their look was both penetrating and sensitive. A man, you said to yourself, who calculated in millimetres.

In this respect images are more precise and richer than literature. To say this is not to deny the expressive or imaginative quality of art, treating it as mere documentary evidence; the more imaginative the work, the more profoundly it allows us to share the artist 's experience of the visible.

it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

11:14, twenty minutes; at 11:35, twenty-eight minutes; at 11:58,

Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and gravitation that he had discovered.

In recent years astronomers have made newspaper headlines all over the world by mapping this radiation in exquisite detail with receivers carried on balloons and satellites. We know that the radiation has the spectrum of pure heat radiation to very high precision and its temperature is the same in different directions on the sky to an accuracy of about one part in 100,000.

I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

Details are the Life of Prose.

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

Now, the point is not so much to buy as cheap as possible or go short at top prices, but to buy or sell at the right time.

He said that the only thing that didn't lie because it simply couldn't was mathematics.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

Generally, accurate decisions on accurate time determine the expected outcome accurately; otherwise, failure and sorry become destiny.

The difference between you and me is that: What you tell or write in hundreds of words that I express in a few words; thus, I do not waste others' time unnecessarily.

The wisdom displays as the creation, and the vision analyses and evaluates that, as its reality, accuracy, and precision.

Your character and thoughts describe you precisely; thus, there is no escape.