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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. ↗

— Claudia Black

#accurate #believe #far #more #often

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. ↗

— Claudia Black

#believe #far #more #often #perceptions

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it. ↗

— Herman Cain

#accurate information #bad #consider #counted #information

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#been #child #easily #forgets #go

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #certain #day #drown #every

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#accurately #arrives #collective #comprehend #democratic

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#both #cases #difficulty #experiment #form

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know. ↗

— John Hume

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