Analysis Quote by John Stewart Bell

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

— Niels Bohr

“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

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and…

— Rene Descartes

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were…

— Erwin Schrodinger

What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?

— Marcus Buckingham

All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to…

— Louise Erdrich

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you…

— Anonymous

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

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

— Anonymous

The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for…

— Franz Karl Achard

According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental…

— Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics.…

— Roy Crowson