Measurement Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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.

If you can’t measure it, you can’t fix it.

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.

It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

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

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]

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

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

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

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

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.

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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