Quotes About Measurement

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

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.

The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science