“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example,… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease 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
The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One of the great intellectual mistakes Einstein made is that he thought that space and time are physically or ontologically entangled. In… — Kedar Joshi 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
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“While they prefer to avoid cracks and flaws, many choose to recalibrate their lives, weigh, and assess what they perceive. Distrusting vague… — Erik Pevernagie 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
“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site.… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can… — Max Born Copy Share Image
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying… — Sandy Carter Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Copy Share Image
[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the… — Val Logsdon Fitch Copy Share Image
I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort… — Harry Bertoia Copy Share Image
Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them! — Kaoru Ishikawa Copy Share Image
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![“This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then…” quote by Herodotus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fbb/herodotus-2844_divided_this-king-sesostris-divided-the-land-amo_1929309.jpg)
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