Precision Quotations

After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

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.

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.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

During the development of the whole-body CT scanner, it became clear that the availability of an accurate cross-sectional picture of the body, the CT 'slice,' would have an important effect on the precision and implementation of radiotherapy treatment planning.

When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing.

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

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.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

Tom pulled off the coup of the century. He probably planned it like a precision military operation.

Venus Express is equipped to peer beneath the thick clouds that encircle the planet and probe the mysteries of Venus with a precision never achieved before, and find out why Venus evolved so differently to Earth.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

We have repeatedly asked the appeals court that the official count of the votes be carried out with full respect for the law, that is with the maximum precision and transparency.

Low lunar orbit, at the precision mapping altitude of 50 kilometers, is substantially different from our experiences at other planets.

Much of Avon's premium valuation is built on the market's expectation that the firm will continue to tick off positive financial results with the precision of a fine watch. While we think Avon has a stable business model, it's not immune to business hiccups.

No one can estimate with any precision how long this will take,

On the positive side, we learned how important mobility and precision strike and global situation awareness and integrated command and control were. On the negative side, I think we also understand that fratricide or friendly fire continues to be an issue.

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.

Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.

He's great. He's a great actor, has a really interesting presence. It kind of reminds me of he has a quality that Anthony Hopkins has, he has stillness and precision in his delivery. It's really interesting.

He has two older brothers who were accomplished, big-time passers and he's been training for this since he was 5 years old. He's a precision passer and he's miles ahead of everyone else I've seen this year.

He goes in right behind him and uses a PIT maneuver, precision immobilization technique, pins the vehicle against the telephone pole.

What Microsoft liked about us was that we'd done a lot of image collection. They also liked the precision of our system ? we can make very precise maps and image location from that ? we also have a very long list of patents that we've acquired over the years that deal with efficient processing of that imagery and turning it into meaningful content.

There aren't going to be very many memorable routes by big receivers, ... Most of them are quick throws to them, slants, or down the field. A smaller player is much more easily able to control his body, so the bigger guys have to work harder at the precision of running routes.

I thought the precision was fine, but the execution wasn't there,

It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility.

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.

My chief concern about the way we're going is that new technology, precision weapons technology, appears to be giving us a new moral alibi.

You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.

We have a machine that will allow people to vision things . . . with very high precision in very small spaces. Our goal is to sell NanoArrayers to entrepreneurial researchers who will do exciting things with it.

We never aim for a 0-0. The 1-1 in the first leg means nothing. We must play with precision and to trust in the force of the team.

The precision of the quiet eye location often mirrors the precision required to perform well in a sport. In golf, precision of movement and precision of focus are paramount,

We are seeing continued growth in precision civilian applications such surveying, precision agriculture, infrastructure monitoring, geodesy, as well as volcano and earthquake research. More specifically at the Department of Transportation where I work, we are expanding our applications across the entire U.S. transportation infrastructure,

Tradition and sports intertwine at West Point, where the Academy overlooks the Hudson River. The full-dress cadet parade is a must before kickoff, and the Long Gray Line performs precision drills and patriotic music in full dress on The Plain. Tailgating at Buffalo Soldier Field is serious, with candelabras and champagne.

We didn't have, maybe, the precision that we needed at times to get things executed, in terms of the protection, route-running and the decision-making at the quarterback position, so it is not really any one area.

We are moving towards a precision approach in the conduct of our operations that begins to take into consideration the Iraqi culture and sensitivities and we want to be precise in our application of combat power,

We want to announce the elections results as soon possible so that the public can rest. But ... there must be precision in the announcement.

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

We paid for our lack of precision in front of goal with the chances that we made. We did well to create some opportunities but we couldn't put them away.

We paid for our lack of precision in front of goal.

While our military forces have displayed extraordinary precision and restraint in deploying arms -- and apparently in securing the Oil Ministry and oil fields -- they have been nothing short of impotent in failing to attend to the protection of (Iraq's) cultural heritage.

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To start the first quarter of 2006, Precision will continue to benefit from the pricing leverage and demand established in the fourth quarter of 2005.

The public has very little access to reliable information if they're not reading the scientific journals. All of the panelists thought it was important to convey with precision the major challenges in the areas of food, water, energy, and health, and I think they did a beautiful job.

Those two are extremely competitive in every sport. Miles is more of a precision pitcher, hits his spots, and Cam likes to overpower hitters.

With ice dance, there's so much to the feet and the precision of their movements.

We created a number of opportunities. We just lacked the precision in front of the goal.

There's only so much you can do. Valley's easily got a couple all-state players. Those guys are going to play Division I soccer and to face that kind of precision as a keeper is tough.

The same technology that gives a nation the ability to precisely launch rockets powerful enough to carry men into orbit and then bring them back down safely can be applied to the precision firing of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The store experience must become a performance, with the energy and precision of a Broadway play.

The species has no sting, and does not display active resistance when interfered with. I once imagined they exercised a sort of superintendence over the others; but this function is entirely unnecessary in a community where all work with a precision and regularity resembling the subordinate parts of a piece of machinery.

The thing that makes this archeology and not treasure-hunting or salvage is the scientific approach, which includes precision navigation and mapping.

The thing that makes artifacts important is their spatial relationships to each other. If you don't record those spatial relationships carefully, then you're not doing archeology. The minute you remove an artifact from a site and put it somewhere else, then you've lost information. The precision mapping done by the navigation system and the sub-profiler makes what we do archeological science.

Scientists have been arguing the question 'how precisely do we need to measure dark energy in order to know what it is?' ... What we have done in our paper is suggest precision limits for the measurements. Fortunately, these limits should be within the range of the JDEM experiments.

Precision Synthesis is being used for FPGA designs with their complex timing challenges and system performance requirements.

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

People think you have to work out 'til you sweat and vomit, and it's not about that. It's about quality of work, not quantity. It's about precision and targeting muscle groups that will benefit them most.

Our development focus on recognition accuracy stems from a combination of industry and customer demand and a continuing commitment to innovation and precision in the area of speech recognition.

Our approach to materials chemistry is to use sophisticated design principles and reaction chemistry to prepare new types of successful matter, ... Our goal is to control the shapes of new materials with the same level of precision that we exercise when controlling the stereo chemical relationships in a natural products synthesis. The precise molecular engineering of materials (nanotechnology) is a quintessential component in the emergence of PSI-TEC's high-tech product line.

Adept robots handle our smallest components with speed, accuracy, and precision far beyond what a manual assembler could achieve. The robots are so easy to program, we don't have to hire engineers to manage the process. The results have been impressive -- our lab efficiency and accuracy have increased dramatically.

The one thing I look for everywhere is beauty. I find it everywhere, and in almost every person. A lovely painting, a good book, or music moves me. It has a life of its own. But I get just as satisfying a thrill when I look at streets wet with rain or see a typist's quick fingers traveling with precision over her keyboard.

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.

This is where the rubber hits the road. Generally it's a 2-8 week training program these folks go through, but if you ask them and say, 'Who do you work for?' they'd say 'I work for AT&T.' They wouldn't say Precision Response. We go out of our way to lose that identity.

There's a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera, and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.

Football is a collision sport, basketball is a precision sport and volleyball is an emotional sport. You've got to get the emotion. Once you get that and the momentum behind you, there's a lot you can do.

It?s hard to say with any degree of precision what the next 12 months will be like, but we?re still in a pro-growth mode here. The thing that will cause slowing is the housing supply constraints. Can businesses attract a work force to the area with high housing costs?

Every astronomer will remember when they first heard the results from WMAP, ... The announcement ... represents a rite of passage for cosmology from speculation to precision science.

It's somewhere between irrelevant and counterproductive. Since the Iraqi army disintegrated, the weapon of choice has become a sniper. That's the ultimate in precision firepower.

It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.

Students need to understand that they're doing precision guesswork. The end result should be that you're exited about where you land your freshman year of college.

It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together.

They were precision out there. They were very unselfish. We were having a hard time slowing them down.

It's not a matter of how fast that they work on it. It's a matter of the precision that they use and the precision tools that they work. And there is a productivity requirement because the soldiers up front are waiting for the soldiers to return, whether for Medivac aircraft or fire power support,

It's not clear that Cassini has the means to determine if the ice crystals themselves contain microbes. It may require a device with much greater compositional precision than we have, so that may have to be left for a future mission.

I love Lincoln's Precision TIG with Micro-Start(TM) because you can get right in there and see what you're working on before you start melting the metal, ... It has a much lower heat input, which gives you more control and just an overall beautiful weld. All of our craftsmen love them. Our Lincoln plasma cutter is great too. You can get into tight places with no problem.

I'm old-fashioned; I'm a man of celluloid. I think it still has a depth and a precision that you do not have in the digital domain, and the digital domain has some disadvantages. When you shoot something and record it with a digital camera, you have an instant access to it - you don't have to wait for the dailies.

If you come out of a route too slow, if you come out lackadaisical, they'll pick it off. They'll definitely intercept it. We've got to really be on top of our game and compete. Precision is the thing.

In the mid-1980s, computer-driven technology became very prevalent in the precision machine trade. It had just started to filter out into other career fields like wood working.

In terms of agriculture, the ball is in the U.S. court; we expect a response to our proposal. On intellectual property we cannot continue combined talks with Colombia because now we must determine with precision the interests of the country, especially with regards to patents.

Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

Precision is not reality