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These approximation quotes suggest that chronological years are only ever a rough Age marker, not a full picture of a person.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.

Quotes by Ralph Merkle

Functional
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Nov 07, 2020

Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.

Quotes by Marv Levy

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

Quotes by Kiri Te Kanawa

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.

Quotes by Evan Davis

Country
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Nov 07, 2020

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

Quotes by Athanasius

Others describe scientific and personal knowledge as Always an approximation of the whole truth, never quite complete.

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