Quotes About Precision

Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

Small is good. For one thing, small projects can be simple.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

If, however, we try to draw these mental images, we quickly realize that we don't have nearly enough information about shape, proportion, contour, or texture to do the job with much precision or character.

An aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom , but to set a limit on infinite error. Life of Galileo Quoted in The Perfectionists

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

the social scientist who lacks a mathematical mind and regards a mathematical formula as a magic recipe, rather than as the formulation of a supposition, does not hold forth much promise. A mathematical formula is never more than a precise statement. […] The chief merit of mathematization is that it compels us to become conscious of what we are assuming.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...

I was corrected on how to stir ("from the bottom up, circling, cleaning the sides as you go"), which I assume everyone else knows but which I never seemed to get right. I was corrected on my whisk ("limp wrist, figure eight, hitting four points of the bowl as if it had corners"), which I hadn't known and which is both efficient and actually rather flash (you can reach exhilarating speeds).

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

The German penchant for detailed record keeping proved to be their undoing: the date and cause of death for each inmate was dutifully recorded.

Remember that in chess, it's only the square you land on that matters.

Former Brewers catcher Jason Kendall referred to batting practice as a "war zone." Others have called it "controlled chaos," a "beehive," or a "sporting symphony." There is so much going on during the session that it's hard for people to understand the activity.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Scales aren't just for all the would-be pastry wizards out there, either. They're a necessary tool for any serious cook as well, especially for determining ratios or servings.

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip, there's always one sitting around. And if it sits around for a day, then it'll stop working. And then you have to reset the time and date, which is annoying.