Quotes About Measurement

Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics.

In dog years, I'm dead.

The nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.

In dog beers, I've only had one.

There are ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels in the human body, children! Almost enough to wind around the earth two and a half times . . .

An onion-breathed technician in a lab coat measures the distance between Werner's temples, the circumference of his head, and the thickness and shape of his lips. Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel. They measure his penis. The angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor.

He checked the barometer he'd nailed to the family room wall: the pressure was rising.

A second technician gauges Werner's eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. Werner's color is himmelblau, sky blue. To assess his hair color, the man snips a lock of hair from Werner's head and compares it to thirty or so other locks clipped to a board, arrayed darkest to lightest. "Schnee," the man mutters, and makes a notation. Snow. Werner's hair is lighter than the lightest color on the board.

Así es como se miden, quizás, las cosas, por una serie de abandonos que confirmamos, contra toda esperanza, en poder llegar a aceptar algún día.

The Roman month lasted either twenty-nine or thirty-one days;

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

In 100m, the timings fluctuate.

I am only six foot three, by the way.

The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

contentment has to do with what we accept, what we expect and what we measure our current situations against.

Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls without binding tension. She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists.

minus 340° Kelvin

Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

A lot of people think growth hormone is going to increase the size of your internal organs which bloats the waistline. So I went and had a battery of tests where they actually measure all of your internal organs and mine were all normal.