Freeman Dyson
Theoretical Physicist
"It is better to be wrong than to be vague."
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Vague
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Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one."
Emile Zola
Novelist
"The vague torment of ... ambition."
Leonard Woolf
Writer, Publisher
"You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon."
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"I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired."
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"Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?"
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"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."
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