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From this point of view the knowledge of matter that our perception on one hand and science on the other give to us appears, no doubt, as approximative, but not as relative.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

The riddle of the universe, like less important riddles, is unravelled only by approximative trials, and the most brilliant discoverers have usually been the bravest guessers.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John

Except with regard to Spain and the United States, most of the existing commercial statistics of Cuba, prior to 1899, are fragmentary and merely approximative.

From Cuba, Old and New by Robinson, Albert G. (Albert Gardner)

These figures must be considered as only approximative, since nothing is more difficult than to estimate the nutritive qualities of different aliments.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

There may therefore be room for debate as to the more or less approximative character of our concepts of the absolute.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various