Measurement Quotes

In God we trust; all others bring data.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

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

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

The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish.

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

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.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.

We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.

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?

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

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.

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

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.

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.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

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.

What gets measured gets done.

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.

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