Quotes about Precision

The inerrancy of the Bible relates to the authors' original intent, not necessarily to our interpretation of a passage. Moreover, the inerrancy of an author's writing must be understood in accordance with the genre of literature the author was using and the culture the author was writing within. For example, we cannot say that an ancient author was incorrect in what he said just because he did not employ the same standard of precision we employ in our culture.

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

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

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

Details are important, and God is just as sovereign over the details as He is over the so-called "big picture.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Richard Rogers was lecturing at Wethersfield, Essex, someone told him, "Mr. Rogers, I like you and your company very well, but you are so precise." To which Rogers replied, "O Sir, I serve a precise God.

Make things as simple as possible but no simpler