Measurement Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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 universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.

A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statements are related not to time itself but only to its measurement or calculation.

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

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

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.

What gets measured gets done.

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?

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

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

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

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

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