Relative Error Bound

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

    “Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer’s gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “... so far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of the Southern States, we hold that he is solemnly bound as a man, as an American, to break them, and that immediately and openly ...”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)