Measurement Quotes

195 Measurement quotes by 177 unique authors

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting… — Hermann von Helmholtz
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical… — Victor J. Stenger
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any… — Wendell Berry
The simple fact is that, since the beginning of this century, the average global temperature has flatlined; indeed, over the past 18 months it has… — Peter Lilley
Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish. — Isidore of Seville
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember… — James A. Garfield
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for… — Lord Kelvin
It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough. — Arthur David Ritchie
It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure… — William Cecil Dampier
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last… — Charles Babbage
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J. G. Holland
The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a… — Eve Curie
The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it… — Michio Kaku
There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct… — Oliver Lodge
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… — Herodotus
Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended… — George Washington
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is… — Hermann Bondi
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here… — Carlo Rovelli
Whenever you can, count. — Francis Galton
[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot… — Charles Francis Richter
[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man. — Eduard Suess
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. — Bill Gates
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even… — Albert Einstein
They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78! — Phyllis Diller

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