Accuracy Quotes
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Xenophon -
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
A. J. P. Taylor
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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
Harold E. Varmus -
If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write – and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy – I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
Jack Brickhouse -
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
Arthur C. Nielsen -
The concern is, with the extension of that program, a lot of the vendors that are designing and scoring these tests are dealing with volumes of tests that they have not experienced before, as the testing program in essence doubles this spring across the country. It's a high-stakes test, and accuracy is so important.
John Curtin
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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
Nate Silver -
It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming up, it would have made my life so much easier. As it was, everything took so much longer.
Harold Evans -
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
Anne Carson -
A new report says that dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with almost 98 percent accuracy. The report also finds that cats can sniff it out with 100 percent accuracy but they prefer to watch you die.
Conan O'Brien -
There's going to be games like that, games that are going to be up there (offensively), especially with the accuracy on three-pointers that they did tonight.
Phil Jackson -
Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.
Adrian Rogers
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Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.
Tony Kushner -
Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.
Leopold Kronecker -
Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
W. C. Brownell -
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
Alan Rickman -
Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.
Allen Lacy -
The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.
Archibald Garrod -
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow -
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.
Wyatt Earp -
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.
Thomas R. Marshall