Precision Instruments Quotes

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.