Science is an inexact science.
From Gray Matters, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The man in the brown coat was back under the oak with his thermometer and his little notebook, taking the temperature of the creek every hour on the hour. He told Switch, who was not listening, that last March the thaw came on the ninth and so this year he expected the eighth. It came on the twenty-second. I used to think the people with instruments knew, and the rest of us guessed; now I think the instruments only make the guessing legible. Science is an inexact science, which the man would have agreed with before I finished saying it, because he was writing the twenty-second down without crossing out the eighth. He kept both numbers on the page. That is the part I am still turning over.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- You walk differently when you walk in the world than when you walk past it.
- The brain is a bundle of nerves.
- Count double the thoughts that precede your actions, half the ones that follow.
- When people say they want to feel better, they usually mean they want to feel less.
- What is spoken barely hints at what is shuttered in.
- If you give a reason for what you’re doing, you’re doing it for a different reason.