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Politics is not an exact science. -- Otto von Bismarck
Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. -- Rod Carew
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. -- Samuel Butler
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. -- Amelia Barr
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. -- James C. Maxwell
Politics is no exact science. -- Otto von Bismarck
Hindsight is an exact science. -- Guy Bellamy
Economics is not an exact science. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
An exact science is one that admits loss. -- Genesis P-Orridge
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. -- Bertrand Russell
but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science. -- William Stanley Jevons
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science. -- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. -- Gustave Flaubert
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. -- Gabriel Marcel
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars! -- Charles M. Schulz
although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love. -- Erich Segal
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences. -- Albrecht Durer
Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information. is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science. -- Paul Samuelson
Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us. -- Peter Singer
Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it. -- Talib Kweli
We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science -- Seth Klarman
I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion. -- Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
At bottom each "exact" science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination. -- Reginald Aldworth Daly
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education. -- William Stanley Jevons
The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research. -- Wilhelm Johannsen
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us. -- Northrop Frye
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science. -- Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. -- Thomas Jefferson
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science. -- William Stanley Jevons

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