Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
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.
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?
With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
