10 Metaphors for accuracy

But it might also be added, that such accuracy as he attained is by no means the result of mere laborious and conscientious copying, but implies and requires the possession of strong and well-balanced imagination.

"Accuracy and expertness in this exercise is an important acquisition."Ib., p. 71.

Extent of observation, accuracy of thought, and depth of reflection, were the qualities which won the prize of sovereignty for his imagination, and the effect of these qualities was practically to anticipate, so far as was needful for his purposes, the mental philosophy of a future age.

The accuracy and extent of his scholarship are manifest on every page,a scholarship consisting not merely in an extensive acquaintance with the works of other botanists, but in a careful confirmation of their results, and in additions to their knowledge, by an observation of Nature for himself.

That firmament, on which the stars move like the hands of a perfect clock, which nothing shakes nor can derange, and whose accuracy is absolutethat firmament would tell him the hours and the distances.

"The accuracy of the national instinct is no longer a universal attribute with us, as in France."

The minute accuracy of the number of copies issued annually is a piece of startling information: the Republic is most famous for statistics, but how, without any stamp to test the accuracy of the issues, they have ascertained the units while dealing with hundreds of millions is a statistical prodigy that throws the calculating genius of a Babbage and the miraculous powers of Herr Döbler and Anderson into the shade.

accuracy in its teachers has become the most rare of all qualifications.

How splendid and commanding her appearance; and with what accuracy is the costume of the age she lived in observed!

I intimate no suspicions; but accuracy is the soul of commerce, as profit is its object.

10 Metaphors for  accuracy