Precision Quotes - page 2

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation. (Kenneth E. Iverson)
We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect. View quote
Theodore Roszak
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case. View quote
Ben Goldacre
It is not "scientism" to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection. View quote
Jennifer Egan
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description! View quote
Alfred Binet
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring. View quote
Linn Ullmann
I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing. View quote
Alexis Arguello
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. View quote
Bruno Walter
I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. (Conrad Veidt)
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. View quote
David Antin
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. View quote
Harold Taylor
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. View quote
Helen Vendler
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision. View quote
Leo Ornstein
Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement. View quote
Owen Hart
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. View quote
Shawn Johnson
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. View quote
Yusef Komunyakaa
We have, among innumerable other works, the Summa theologica, surely one of the most amazing and stupendous products of the human mind. ...never before or since has the wide world been so neatly boxed and compassed, so completely and confidently understood, every detail of it fitted, with such subtle and loving precision, into a consistent and convincing whole. (Carl L. Becker)
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination. View quote
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
The book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. View quote
James Thurber
Of God one doesn't speak with any precision or seriousness except in poetry. View quote
Nicolás Gómez Dávila