Measurement Quotes - Page 11

• The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Confused, Men, Mirrors

  5 Copy quote

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

  Jeanette Winterson

  Justice, Diversity, Position

  4 Copy quote

• Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and it is probably safe to predict that the most important new discovery that will be made with flying telescopes will be quite unexpected and unforeseen.

  Lyman Spitzer

  Stars, Adventure, Science

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 17, No. 5, p. 191, 194, May 1961.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Lying, Statistics, Medical

  "Infections and Inequalities". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 1, 1999.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Errors, Shadow, Telescopes

  Quoted in Dennis Overbye Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (1991).

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.

  Sandy Carter

  Media, Effectiveness, People

  5 Copy quote

• As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

  Cassandra Danz

  Garden, Eight, Interesting

  49 Copy quote

• 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?

  Roy Spencer

  Ice, Sea, Temperature

  9 Copy quote

• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Truth, Honesty

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Add, Wells

  "How a Hollywood Man Should Dress for The Oscars". www.esquire.com. February 24, 2012.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.

  William Forsyth Sharpe

  Average, Principles, Dollars

  "Do You Want to Be Just Average?" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. June 9, 2010.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Want, Well Being, Economist

  8 Copy quote

• As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

  Micah Lexier

  Mistake, Moving, Getting Older

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Simon Sinek

  Goal, Progress, Should

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2011

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Fields, Dollars, Would Be

  4 Copy quote

• There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable.

  Emma Stone

  Art, Mean, People

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

  Emily Haines

  Distance, Ordinary, Tasks

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.

  Andrew Gelman

  Thinking, Data, Starting Over

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology" by Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.

  Walter Munk

  Ocean, Thinking, Ice

  "Legendary Oceanographer Walter Munk: Reflecting on seventy-six years in oceanography and the future of the planet". Interview with Eliana Alvarez and Leah Goudsmit, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 27, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.

  Tom Coburn

  Real, Issues, Our Society

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future

  Steve Lohr

  Philosophy, Mean, Technology

  4 Copy quote

• I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

  Satish Kumar

  Heart, Compassion, Generosity

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Satish Kumar

  Together, Stories

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Believe, Should Have

  4 Copy quote

• Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.

  Jim Trelease

  Fun, Dirty, Book

  11 Copy quote