Quotes About Measurement

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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, having to do with the fact that the very act of observing something changed the position and course of the thing being observed—at least on the subatomic level.

Of cliques, groups and social intrigues] ... why be alive if you can't like the battle of measuring your contempt or indifferent or interest against that of others?

I measure my life not by decades but by deeds.

Life is both a particle and a wave, Lacey taught me, and also it's neither. But only when no one is watching. Once you measure it, it has to choose. It was the act of witnessing that turned nothing into something, collapsed possibility clouds into concrete and irrevocable truth. I'd only pretended to understand before, but I understood now: When no one was watching, I was a cloud. I was all possibilities.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

The measurement of mourning: eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.

27 de octubre Todo el mundo conjetura —así lo siento— el grado de intensidad de un duelo. Pero imposible (signos irrisorios, contradictorios) medir hasta qué punto alguien ha sido alcanzado.

I counted off seventy-two seconds, which represents a mile at fifty miles an hour.

Tiempo. La distancia dividida por la velocidad es igual al tiempo».

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Perhaps the most important point made in this context is the distinction between two kinds of the art of measurement: one kind which considers the greater and less in relation to one another, and another kind which considers the greater and less (now understood as excess and defect) in relation to the mean or, say, the fitting, or something similar. All arts, and especially the kingly art, make their measurements with a view to the right mean or the fitting, i.e., they are not mathematical.

In fact, the first clock to record hours of equal length wasn't invented until the 1330s. Before that, daylight, however long, had been divided into twelve equal intervals, which meant that an "hour" might be more than twice as long in June as in December (in London, for example, it varied from 38 to 82 of today's minutes).

When we perform an assessment or measurement, our brains do not rely solely on direct perceptional input. They also integrate other sources of information—such as our expectation.

Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

All sports are games of inches.

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The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is overwhelming indeed; also his achievement of the system of absolute measurement in the field of electromagnetism. In my opinion it is impossible to achieve a coherent objective picture of the world on the basis of concepts which are taken more or less from inner psychological experience.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything than can be counted counts.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.