Quotes About Measurement

For he by geometric scale,Could take the size of pots of ale.

the doorkeeper's feet are seven armlengths long five oxhides for his sandals ten shoemakers worked on them

Kitchen design experts recommend that there be at least four feet of space between each point of your work triangle (e.g., between your refrigerator and sink) but no more than nine feet across the furthest points (think about how inconvenient a ten-foot walk between your sink and stove would be!).

Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

The speed of time is one second per second.

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

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

Effectiveness is best measured by results over time.

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

You can not define being exactly on time.

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.