“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”— Ernest Rutherford
“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.”— William Strunk, Jr.
“There are few words in our language which have been more misunderstood, and which have been the cause of more misdirected and fruitless effort, than the word 'accuracy'.”— Sir David Gill
“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”— Vladimir Nabokov
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”— Mark Twain