Quotes About Measurement

Our subjective sense of the direction of time, the psychological arrow of time, is therefore determined within our brain by the thermodynamic arrow of time. Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

Na teoria da relatividade, não existe tempo absoluto único; em vez disso, cada indivíduo tem sua própria medida de tempo, que depende de onde ele se encontra e de como está se movendo.

however, not very accurate, and so his value for the speed of light was 140,000 miles per second, compared to the modern value of 186,000 miles per second. Nevertheless, Roemer's achievement, in not only proving that light travels at a finite speed, but also in measuring that speed, was remarkable—coming as it did eleven years before Newton's publication of Principia Mathematica.

Dalam teori relativitas tidak ada waktu mutlak yang unik; tiap individu punya pengukuran waktu sendiri yang bergantung kepada tempat dan cara kerjanya.

In physics the smallest doll is called the Planck length and is a millimetre divided by a 100,000 billion billion billion.

Kita jelas tak bisa memprediksi peristiwa masa depan dengan tepat jika tak bisa mengukur keadaan alam semesta sekarang dengan tepat! Kita masih dapat membayangkan ada set hukum yang mengatur peristiwa sepenuhnya bagi suatu sosok supranatural, yang dapat mengamati keadaan semesta sekarang tanpa mengganggu.

Le désordre augmente avec le temps parce que nous mesurons le temps dans la direction où le désordre augmente. Qui dit mieux ?

he could make out face, he was under two hundred yards. If he could just make out head he was under three hundred. If he could make out only legs, he was under four hundred. If he could make out body, he was under five hundred; if he could only see movement, he was under six hundred.

You could feel weight, yes—when you were carrying too much, it made you ploddy—but wasn't it, like time, basically just a human construct? Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren't they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality?

Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Esquire magazine: "Great ideas can't be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested." It sums up how I feel about trying to measure radical ideas. You simply can't. You can't apply data to see if you should do a radical idea. You do the radical idea, and then you measure how it worked.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

Leary suggested that self-esteem is more like an internal gauge, a "sociometer" that continuously measures your value as a relationship partner.

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

measuring duration of time.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

medimos al hombre desde el punto de vista humano, terminamos con una tabla de limitaciones. Cuando

There can be problems with measuring rehydroxylation

An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.

The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards. The

Most important, teams working in this system begin to measure their productivity according to validated learning, not in terms of the production of new features.