Quotes About Precision

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle.

I break open a lunch of Swiss cheese, pepperoni and crackers. I cut up the cheese and then the pepperoni in careful, neat slices. The silence allows you to do each thing right.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. MARK TWAIN Did

Fai bene quanto puoi e male quanto devi, sempre consapevole del margine d'errore del tuo fare

the KISS principle—Keep It Simple, Stupid (or Keep It Super Simple)

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs.

I'm the fine print; read closely. -Kristina Grish

Quit drawing out the story

Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.