Measurements Quotes
75 quotes by 69 authors
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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
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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
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Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
— Heywood Hale Broun
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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
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Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
— Charles Francis Richter
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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