In response to reporter's question "So when you said 4 million tests, seven weeks ago, you were just talking about tests being sent out, not actually being — being completed?" April 28, 2020
2020s
“As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision.”
1910s, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918)
“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”
"On the Cryptic and the Elliptic"
All Things Considered (1908)
Context: For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. The speeches in our time are more careful and elaborate, because they are meant to be read, and not to be heard. And exactly because they are more careful and elaborate, they are not so likely to be worthy of a careful and elaborate report. They are not interesting enough. So the moral cowardice of modern politicians has, after all, some punishment attached to it by the silent anger of heaven. Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
“If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.”
“A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.”
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Herman E. Daly and Joshua Farley, in Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications. (2003), page 234. quoted in Beyond GDP Measuring progress, true wealth, and the well-being of nations http://ec.europa.eu/environment/beyond_gdp/key_quotes_en.html, European Commission:Environment
