Totally. "Science" requires precision because science in many ways is the mechanism by which we learn truths with greater and greater precision. That doesn't me

Totally. "Science" requires precision because science in many ways is the mechanism by which we learn truths with greater and greater precision. That doesn't mean though that science naturally abhors imprecise "for-scale" measurements though- they just reserve them for illustration and avoid using them for the actual science. (e.g., http://imgur.com/gallery/ESp2j http://imgur.com/gallery/ESp2j - marianas trench scale)