Quotes About Measurement

I felt obligated by friendship as well as duty to make certain they were comfortably housed. Since men seem to measure comfort by the degree of dirt and confusion that prevails, I deduced that they were very comfortable.

It is obvious that the "unit"—inch—has no value by itself, but is very precious as a unit for measuring the phenomenon of length, which it perfectly represents, and that is why it was introduced.

By land it was a scant 29 miles in a straight line.

She measured 144 feet over-all, with a 25-foot beam

adding up to a total thickness of 7 feet, 1 inch.

Only an estimate could be made of the wind's actual speed, though it was at least 65 knots.

The last barometer reading of the day was 28.96, the lowest since the disastrous blizzard in July.

Worsley was ready with his sextant, and James stood by with his theodolite to catch the angle of the sun.

Our distance from Paulet I. is now 94 miles

But Worsley took his chronometer out to the edge of the floe and timed the interval between swells—eighteen seconds

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Trigonometrical Survey of England.

The pandemic of Spanish influenza is easier to measure if it is restricted to the years of 1918 and 1919 and its farewell performance of 1920 is excluded.

Anthropomorphic measurements and detailed genealogies were conducted, which showed that hybrid populations resulting from 'mixture' between blacks and whites displayed a homogeneity which was even greater than that found among those of 'pure' European descent.

a liter of white gas a day per three people seems to be about right.

Mathematics is natural. Love is natural. It only makes sense that it's mathematically quantifiable.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ever since I did that 57.9 last year, the Americans have been analysing me in detail. You can see on the swimming web pages. They are breaking it down in every detail. How many strokes I take. How quick I am in and out of the wall.

In my own private-sector work, I have become intrigued with RIWI, a Canadian based company that surveys random respondents on the Web to measure attitudes in otherwise hard-to-reach places.

The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.

I would really want all my films to make money. But this weekend calculation is the most dangerous thing because, based on the amount collected in the first weekend, they start declaring the film a hit or a flop. It can't be.

On the RFactor model that comes with the 'Pro-Sim,' everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you're on a race weekend.