Barometer Quote by Peter Higgs

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision"…

— Steven Chu

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

— Ambrose Bierce

When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed,…

— Bertrand Russell

“In the sixteenth century neither the barometer nor the manometer had been invented—how, then, could Saknussemm have been able to discover when he did…

— Jules Verne

I have invented the Thermometer style.

— Josef Albers

There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and…

— Anonymous

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.

— Philippe Kahn

It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately…

— Arthur David Ritchie

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

— Chuck Yeager

“Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its…

— Dava Sobel

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

— Spencer Silver

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in…

— Richard Ernst