#curate

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic. ↗

— Sean Covey

#history #old-inaccurate-sayings #funny

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#none #photographs #them #truth

I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#analysis #any #anyone #assessment #i

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#conducted #elections #fairly #know #voters

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#being #i #interested #one thing #really

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#class #curate #five #i #kent

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#critical #done #even #extensively #fairness

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. ↗

— Richard Price

#book #close #different #i #i can

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#corresponds #crystal #determining #method #nowadays

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? ↗

— John Bates Clark

#case #dishonest #give #honest #how