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Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. ↗

— John Tukey

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An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. ↗

— John Tuley

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According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined. ↗

— Edward Witten

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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

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Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known. ↗

— Granville Stanley Hall

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