Measurement Quotes

195 quotes by 177 authors

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity… — Gregory Bateson
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash… — Jack Welch
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it… — Wernher von Braun
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. — Heywood Hale Broun
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative. — Jeanette Winterson
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. — Bill Gates
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more… — Erwin Schrodinger
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. — Grace Hopper
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. — Charles Francis Richter
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. — Fritjof Capra
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — Lord Kelvin
Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,… — Lyman Spitzer
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

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