Measurement Quotes - Page 12

• 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.]

  William M. Fowler

  Ohio State, Answers, Different

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• Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Issues, Opposites

  "Life Without Prejudice". Book by Richard M. Weaver, "Life without prejudice," p. 6, 1965.

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• the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

  Anita Roddick

  Judging, Leader, Lines

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• It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Dirty, Men, Hands

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• A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Husband, Children

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

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

  Aditi Shankardass

  Brain, Ongoing, Function

  "Searching for roots of learning disorders" by Aditi Shankardass, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

  Dick Costolo

  Successful, Thinking, Safe

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• 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.

  Suze Orman

  Judging, Currency

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• I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

  Alicia Sacramone

  Chinese, Dresses, Pieces

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• 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupidity, Given, Consistent

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• To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early in life which permits them to have as much pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction now as is possible without injuring themselves or others. Money can help to do this, but it is not and must not become the sole aim of a person's existence. We all know what happened to King Midas.

  Rudy Vallee

  Success, Kings, Philosophy

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• Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

  Kate Braverman

  Men, Years, Priorities

  Kate Braverman (2011). “Palm Latitudes: A Novel”, p.36, Seven Stories Press

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Age, Size, Determined

  "At ease: stories I tell to friends" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 389), 1967.

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• 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.

  Jay Griffiths

  Schedules, Emotion, Moments

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

  Louise Erdrich

  Believe, Cutting, Feet

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.214, Odyssey Editions

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• The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Intuition, Today

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• 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.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Knowledge, Science, Routine

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• The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Race, Where You Come

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• I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

  Mark Gatiss

  Heart, Thinking, Simple

  "Sherlock (TV Series) - A Scandal in Belgravia". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected.

  Zhuangzi

  Eyelashes, Mirrors, Water

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• Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Distance, Ideas, Suits You

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• 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.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Order, True Or False, Operations

  Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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

  Willis Lamb

  Book, Granted, Made

  "Quantum Measurements and Chaos". Book by E. R. Pike and S. Sarkar, eds., pp. 183-193, 1987.

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• A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.

  Franz Karl Achard

  Children, Games, Play

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• 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?

  Edward Tufte

  World, Paper, Rich

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