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A favorite quote: > Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always
by kthejoker2 7y ago
A favorite quote:
> Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
- otoburb 7y agoMaynard Keyes might have been a Carveth Read fan: "It is better to be vaguely right, than precisely wrong." - Carveth Read, "Logic: Deductive & Inductive" 1898 (1920 4th Ed.) [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Pag...