Ronald Reagan Quotes

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

I cite my vouchers to every passage and I have done my utmost, first to find out the truth, and then to relate it in the clearest order. I have laboured after accuracy; and yet I dare not say that I am without mistake; nor do I desire the reader to conceal any he may possibly find.

I certify and declare that the Account of the Population of the District for which I am Enumerator, contained in this Book, has been truly and faithfully taken by me, and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the same is correct

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

I just don't like making mistakes.

I came into the game showing you that I'm no angel. I'm not perfect and this is why I tell people off the top.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit it. I've never met one like that, but if I did, I'd hate them.

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.