Quotes About Measurement

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Garbage has become one of the most accurate measures of prosperity in twenty-first century America and the world.

Never estimate and measure the persona's stature; only understand that since that defines and pictures its height of wisdom and insight.

The world has not yet such a thermometer or measure that can check one's idiocy.

It's a typical Western bias. You think a tool is more important than a dream because a tool can be measured and a dream cannot.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

Quality of life": as if we knew it, and could measure it. I wanted to know what it was: the quality of life.

In California depth is measured in feet: six feet on one end of the pool and three feet on the other.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

SleepScore Max empowers me to identify my own sleep issues and gives me advice for better sleep to maximize my performance every day. It's critical to measure and quantify improvements while training.

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

We started paying everyone 100% bonuses. We removed any sort of performance management system where you put down your goals for the quarter, or the year, then try measuring against those goals because when you are dealing with innovation, that has no meaning.

A radiometer is a device for measuring the intensity of radiation. A microwave radiometer consists of a filter to select a desired band of frequencies followed by a detector which produces an output voltage proportional to its input power.

When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.

What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

I'm 5'2'', 5'3'' on a good day.

The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.

The faith in the categories of reason is the cause of nihilism. We have measured the value of the world according to categories that refer to a purely fictitious world.

without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live—that

The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.