“ Science is simply common sense at its best — that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
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“ What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. ”
- Tobin S. Webster- Copy
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“ I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.". ”
- Raymond Smullyan- Copy
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“ The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. ”
- Adam Clayton- Copy
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“ It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory. ”
- Bernard Ingham- Copy
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“ We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian. ”
- Orson Wells- Copy
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“ Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. ”
- William Randolph Hearst- Copy
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“ Using archaeological and anatomical science rather than artistic interpretation makes this the most accurate likeness ever created. ”
- Jean Claude- Copy
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“ There is an attempt to make a show, a political show, to give the impression that there is a tendency from the Israelis to move in the accurate way. ”
- Yasser Arafat- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”
- Richard Avedon- Copy
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“ Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. ”
- Claudia Black- Copy
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