Quotes About Measurement

why do we personify time? Is it because we're afraid to admit that our lives are measured by an abstract force that neither knows nor cares about our entry into existence? Or our departure into death? Time is our mysterious master giving it a face and hands we attempt to transform it into our servant.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead.

As Anderson cleared maps and other papers from the table adjacent to his desk, I asked him for the heat content of the coal. His reply: about 12,500 Btu (British thermal units)

Using the official $1 per day line, we estimate that [from 1970 to 2006] world poverty rates have fallen by 80 percent.

Architecture is a hypothesis, that needs to be proven by implementation and measurement. —Tom Gilb

I used to think 2000 lines was a big program. After all, it was a full box of cards that weighed 10 pounds. Now, however, a program isn't really big until it exceeds 100,000 lines.

Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch, a man may use instead the ebb and flow of light and dark. Lacking, however, a window through which to see such movement, the reliance must be devolved upon some inner mechanism of the mind. But if the mind has received a shock, the mechanism is disturbed, and time becomes as the ground is to a drunkard, variable.

Run through those time measurements again, Aahz grumbled. In seconds, minutes, hours.... Minutes! We've got a few minutes.

Possessed by the grasp of quality and connoisseurship, he knew and measured the worth of man's visible heritage and determined, in the midst of constant change, to preserve and enhance that heritage so that it might be visible to anyone with eyes to see."30

and personally ate sixteen pounds of brisket. The Air Force keeps track of important things like that.

Das ganze Zeitalter betet das Geld, die Ordnung, das Wissen, Rechnen, Messen und Wägen, alles in allem also den Geist des Geldes und seiner Verwandten an und beklagt es zugleich.

Con ella podría medir y saber en dónde me encuentro en relación con mi objetivo de volverme independiente en lo económico.

La parte superior del diagrama es un "estado financiero", al que a menudo también se le denomina "estado de pérdidas y ganancias". En él se miden el ingreso y el gasto: el dinero que entra y el que sale. La parte inferior del diagrama corresponde a un "balance general".

Riqueza no es lo mismo que dinero. A la riqueza no se le mide de la misma manera que al ingreso. A la riqueza se le mide a través del tiempo.

There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?

The period tells us the mass, of course

If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax, because this is very small in the 3-adics.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.