Quotes About Precision

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

Geometry is the most complete science.

One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

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.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.