MBlume comments on Rationality Quotes - July 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MBlume 02 July 2009 10:53:54PM 1 point [-]

Statements should be as precise as possible, but no more precise.

Comment author: JustinShovelain 02 July 2009 11:25:44PM 3 points [-]

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

-- Albert Einstein

Comment author: gwern 02 July 2009 11:54:04PM 15 points [-]

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

--Aristotle

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