David Hume Quotes

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

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

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Exactitude is not truth.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

I believe only in the mathematics.

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

On cannot be precise, and still be true.