Avoiding Quote by Hermann Bondi

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

— Marvin Minsky

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

— Lord Kelvin

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

— Niels Bohr

In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there…

— Udny Yule

“If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a…

— Douglas W. Hubbard

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

— George Boole

We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.

— Brian Solis

I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be…

— J. Robbins

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

— Sorin Cerin

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

— Edmund Burke

If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it.

— Lord Kelvin