Measurements Quotes

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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
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
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
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
The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements.… — Paul Carus
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
[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
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
I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right… — David Spade
It is not a dirty word, 'feminism'. I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else. ...… — Cyndi Lauper
Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether… — Roy Spencer
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar… — Victor Francis Hess
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. — Douglas Coupland
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work… — Martin Lewis Perl

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