Quotes About Measurement

The physicality enshrined by the neuroscientists as the measure of all things is not objectivity but instead a pure artifact of the scale at which and the means by which we and our devices perceive. So to invoke it as the test and standard of reality is quintessentially anthropocentric.

Everything you do in life use percentage as your god.

How much above zero still produces zero is not known.

have no way of knowing how cold (or warm) the globe actually got", how did the IPCC know it's hotter than it's been for a thousand years?

What has to happen for you to know that your values are being met or fulfilled?

Candles were used to measure the diminishing levels of oxygen. When a candle placed on the floor went out, children were picked up and held at shoulder height. When a candle on a chair went out, then the evacuation of the level began. And if a third candle, positioned at about chin level, began to sputter, then the whole bunker was evacuated, however heavy the attack above.

In everything continuous and divisible, it is possible to grasp the more, the less, and the equal, and these either in reference to the thing itself, or in relation to us.

F]or time itself is conceived as 'coming round'; and this again because time and such a standard rotation mutually determine each other. Hence, to call the happenings of a thing a circle is saying that there is a sort of circle of time; and that is because it is measured by a complete revolution, and the whole measurement of a thing is nought else but a defined number of the units of its measurements.

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

Gravity was down to about half sea level.

If you sat down, you were heavier than when you stood up.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. And yet, in making any general judgement of this sort, we are in danger of forgetting how variegated the human world and its mental life are.

But if you're a lawyer at Carter Spink, you don't sit around. Not when every six minutes of your time is worth money. If I let six minutes of time tick away, I've lost the firm £50. Twelve minutes, £100. Eighteen minutes, £150. And the truth is, you get used to measuring your life in little chunks. And you get used to working. All the time.

How do you measure misery?

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

Dreams largerthan ourselves we killed, not wantingour smallness measured against them."(poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions)

Dokonce badatel v oboru potÃ…â"¢ebuje kalkula?ku a pár minut, aby vám spo?ítal rozdíl hlasitosti mezi 53 decibely a 87 decibely.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Long shadows cast by skyscrapers create another problem. The longest shadow cast by a building is measured at 3 P.M. on the winter solstice, December 21.2 At that time, the shadow is 4.4 times the height of the building on the latitude of New York City. The shadow cast by a building as high as the 1,250-foot-high Empire State Building is longer than a mile.

average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit.

No matter how good the individuals who manage an institution are, institutions lack a conscience because they measure by accounting methods.

Originally, Fannie Farmer used 1/3 cup of sugar. This amount has crept up over the years, even though apples get sweeter and sweeter: 1/2 cup should be plenty.

In an analog machine each number is represented by a suitable physical quantity, whose values, measured in some pre-assigned unit, is equal to the number in question.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.