Relative Error Bound

Famous quotes containing the words relative, error and/or bound:

    “Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”
    —Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

    “The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “To be the subject of alms-giving is trying, and to feel in duty bound to appear cheerfully grateful under the trial, must be still more so.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)