Quotes About Precision

las palabras son casi siempre retóricas o excesivas o metafóricas y por lo tanto inexactas

We know that there are perhaps 40,000 unique mutations affecting more than 10,000 genes and that there are 500 of these genes that are bonafide drivers — causes — of cancer. Yet comparatively we have about a dozen targeted medications.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

He liked order and precision, and his crew knew it. He had hand-picked each and every one of them, and he'd never sailed with a finer group of men. Not that he would ever say it out loud, but they knew it.

precision in gardens was too much like turning a wolf on the prowl into a pug with an embroidered ruffle for a collar. She much preferred the wolf.

Met de uiterste voorzichtigheid, maandenlang mogelijkheden tegen elkaar afwegend, bijna tot in het overdrevene toe langzaam, zo streng mogelijke maatstaven aanleggend, vatte hij zijn oordeel over een letter, een woord of een hele zin pas dan samen, wanneer hij van de onaantastbaarheid ervan zeker was.

Von peinlichen Vorsicht, monatelang erwägend, langsam bis zum Überdruss, am strengsten gegen sich selbst, schloss er seine Meinung über einen Buchstaben, ein Wort oder einen ganzen Satz nur dann ab wenn er ihre Unangreifbarkeit sicher war.

God makes the assignments, and he apportions the degree of difficulty in precise measurements.

Fix yourself something to drink, she said. I don't have any Mr. Pepper. You mean Dr. Pepper? For the love of God! She exploded. People expect everything from a psychic! 'Doctor,' 'mister,' I was close enough. I didn't call it 'Mrs. Salt,' did I?

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

My point is that if you want something to happen, you must specify that something with great care and as much completeness as possible. Then, and only then, can you devise a strategy to accomplish what you really want—all of it—and not some little bit that turns out to be meaningless when everything else falls apart.

This is what makes them good engineers. Perfectionism: incinerating perfectionism.

Usually he overdid things, this time he got it right, or as right as something only equivocally right in itself can be got.

Aviation is not in itself inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than even the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.

often studiously understated language of the U.S. Navy's

One of the biggest challenges for a writer of nonfiction is to avoid using too much of his or her hard-won material. A great and enduring book isn't comprehensive; it is highly, even ruthlessly, selective, zeroing in on the most evocative and illustrative moments while dispensing with the clutter that might prevent the high points from resonating to maximum effect.

Worsley was ready with his sextant, and James stood by with his theodolite to catch the angle of the sun.

But Worsley took his chronometer out to the edge of the floe and timed the interval between swells—eighteen seconds

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,Dead perfection, no more.

The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.