Measurement Quotes - Page 2

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

  DJ Patil

  Measure For Measure, Measuring, Ifs

  DJ Patil (2011). “Building Data Science Teams”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Wisdom, Inspiration

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.31, New World Library

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• Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

  Alfie Kohn

  Education, Teacher, School

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• Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

  Gregory Bateson

  Mean, Numbers, Next

  "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.

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

  Charles Francis Richter

  Science, Long, Made

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• Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.

  Lord Kelvin

  Hard Work, Science, Discovery

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• Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

  Kendrick Lamar

  Song, Time, Rapper

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• If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Attitude, Equality

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• In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

  Lord Kelvin

  Numbers, Quality, Principles

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

  J. D. Salinger

  Mind, Dresses, Knows

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Outsiders, Size, Persons

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.30, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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  Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Courage, Men, Perfect

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

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Love, Valentine's Day, Expansion

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.41, Celestial Arts

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• Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, Order, Things In Life

  Dennis Prager (2009). “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Preparation, Analysis, Physics

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• Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Persistence, Belief, Belief In Yourself

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• ... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Math, Men, Years

  Inaugural Address as Cavendish Professor at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Oct. 1871

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• Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Art, Food, Home Cooking

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• 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.

  Leo Bogart

  Ideas, Recognition, Advertising

  LEO BOGART (1967). “STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING”

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• The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

  Arthur Nielsen

  Light, Data, Darkness

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

  Lord Kelvin

  Science, Discovery, Physics

  "Is Scientific Genius Extinct?" by Ross Pomeroy, bigthink.com.

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• I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

  David Spade

  Fighting, Guy, West Coast

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Atmosphere, Rays, Answers

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

  Werner Heisenberg

  Vices, Momentum, Vice Versa

  "Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1927.

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• Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Discovery, Together

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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