Quotes About Measurement

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can, nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

And if we start using Celsius in the next few years, I will be severely disappointed.

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The success of an economy can be assessed only by looking at what is happening to the living standards—broadly defined—of most citizens over a sustained period of time.

The true wealth of a nation is measured by its capacity to deliver, in a sustainable way, high standards of living for all of its citizens.

On every criterion by which performance is usually measured, the eurozone has been failing. Its performance has been poor relative to the United States, from which the crisis originated, and relative to non-eurozone Europe. Even Germany could not escape.

Por lo pronto, me puse a medir el tamaño de mi cariño y dio 685 kilómetros por la carretera. Es decir, de aquí a donde tú estás. Ahí se acabó. Y es que tu eres el principio y fin de todas las cosas.

You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments. - Qui-Gon Jinn

Berman's foot measure. Then he turned it around and I put my right foot in. That's another reason why my mother thinks Mr. Berman is good at selling

The courage of his imagination is the temporal and spiritual measurement of every artist.

If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

El amor se mide por los hechos.

From his naval training he recalled someone giving him a rule of thumb about estimating the speed of a vessel based on its bow wake. The

If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.

Give a man an inch and he'll call himself a ruler,

What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.

Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer… we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

The more precisely we determine the position [of an electron], the more imprecise is the determination of velocity at this instant, and vice versa.

regression to the mean has an explanation but does not have a cause.

Judgment can therefore be described as measurement in which the instrument is a human mind.

Risk" does not exist "out there," independent of our minds and culture, waiting to be measured. Human beings have invented the concept of "risk" to help them understand and cope with the dangers and uncertainties of life. Although these dangers are real, there is no such thing as "real risk" or "objective risk.

the following two statements mean exactly the same thing: Large samples are more precise than small samples. Small samples yield extreme results more often than large samples do.