“In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist Robert W. Wood was asked to respond to a toast ...… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured.… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT… — Robert Sutton Harrington Copy Share Image
We need to stop comparing ourselves to others, and stop patting ourselves on the back for attaining artificial measurements of spirituality. We… — Dan Schilling Copy Share Image
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out,… — Victor Francis Hess Copy Share Image
There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist;… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your… — Fran Tarkenton Copy Share Image
A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement. — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004… — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
