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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Michel De Certeau |

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Aristotle |

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Bertrand Russell |

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Aristotle |

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Anonymous |