Measurement Quotations

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.'

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

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

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

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 or the measurements look strange.

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

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

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced to simple notions which are suited for precise measurement and used of the formulation of quantitative laws. Experiment and Theory in Physics

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 can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

The heart of science is measurement.

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.

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 sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?

All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with all kinds of explanations of what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect, and yet most of those explanations are wrong. It's really easy to be wrong in science ... it's really hard to be right.

What gets measured gets done.

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.