Quotes About Measurement

It is an emotional issue which ultimately revolves around the question of whether other animals affectively experience the world and themselves in a way similar to humans—as subjectively feeling, sentient creatures. The topic of subjectivity is one that modern neuroscience has avoided. It is generally agreed that there are no direct, objective ways to measure the subjectivity of other animals, nor indeed of other humans.

Money is just a way of measuring work, but you don't need money if everyone agrees that trading one kind of work for another will do just as well.

When one sees herself and her kind as the standard of perfection against which all else is measured, it is impossible to have perspective.

GMT was originally defined by the transit

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.

You cannot bullshit the stopwatch.

She probably had the only 3-D CAD program in the world that used bat wing-beats as a unit of measurement. 

Define steps small enough that teams can see and show their progress. Don't get bogged down trying to create the perfect system with a perfect set of measurements. Nothing will ever be perfect for everyone. Agreeing on something reasonable and moving forward is important when the alternative is being paralyzed. Be flexible where it makes sense to be, but hold the line where you shouldn't bend.

The businessperson can therefore know the exact dollar profit on a product, but not the exact dollar value of the brand, the advertising, or, indeed, the quality of the product.

The living standard by which a person uses to measure their mortal life is the one which will be used to reward them in their afterlife

REFERENCE RANGES FOR CREATININE Category Normal Range (mg/dL) Men 0.6 to 1.2 Women 0.5 to 1.1 Children (twelve years of age or younger) 0.3 to 0.7

If we center our thoughts and activities on ourselves, our world grows increasingly narrow, and over time our view of reality is warped. Without realizing it, we become the measure of all things in our own minds.

Enjoyment is always greatest when you have enough contrast to measure it by.

We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation of its measured value. One of the aims of superstring theory is to predict this quantity precisely. Any theory that could do that would be taken very seriously indeed as a potential 'Theory of Everything'.

Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real.

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The one sure thing we know about the quantum world is not to trust our common sense and only to believe things we can see directly or detect unambiguously with our instruments. We don't know what goes on inside a box unless we look.

But you worship money, Nate. You're part of a culture where everything is measured by money. It's a religion.

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But I think five is on the low side.

We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.

But it is a common mistake to emphasise what you can measure at the expense of more important things that you can't. It is generally better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly." Nor could he do so as regards his own. He was to lose

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.