Quotes About Measurement

Concepts of space seem to infect other concepts as well, as we saw in the first chapter when noting the way that people count and measure out events as if they were objects made of time-stuff. People also use space as a model for an abstract continuum when they speak of the rising or falling of their paycheck, their weight, or their spirits,38 or when they plot data points, representing anything whatsoever, on graph paper.

Weber's Law: for an increase in intensity to be noticeable, it must be a constant proportion of the existing intensity.

True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

In modern terms we would say that the more strongly correlated the measurements, the less information, in Shannon's precise sense, a Bertillon card conveys.

The human body is an immensely complex system, and there are only a few of its features we can measure, let alone manipulate. Based on the correlations we can observe, there are lots of drugs that might plausibly have a desired health effect. And so you try them out in experiments, and most of them fail dismally. To work in drug development requires a resilient psyche, not to mention a vast pool of capital.

But the significance test that scientists use doesn't measure importance.

statistically noticeable" or "statistically detectable" instead of "statistically significant"! That would be truer to the meaning of the method,

if you are on a rocket moving close to the speed of light relative to Earth, then your speed through space is very high. So in order for your total speed through space-time relative to Earth to stay within the speed limit of the universe, your speed through time has to decrease—as measured by clocks on Earth.

Author's note: If the night is 12 parts and the day is six parts, the entire 24 hour day is divided into 18 sections of 80 minutes each.)

three years there are 1,092 days, and in five years 1,820 days, so that in eight years there are 2,912 days. (Author's note: At the end of five years a week may be added to bring the year back in line. Compare 1826.25 days of the solar year in five years to 1820 days of the Enochian calendar after five years. This leaves 6.25 days difference.

You can talk about results all you want, but they remain nothing more than ideas until you decide exactly how you're going to measure them.

So, start every change project with a clear and compelling statement of the goal you're trying to achieve. Measure your progress. Don't leave it to intuition or hunches. Measure your measures by the behavior they influence. And finally, measure the right thing, and measure it frequently.

Not everyone forgets to take measures and to do so frequently, but people still fail to create measures that generate the right kind of influence. They do so by measuring the wrong variable.

But no matter how finely calibrated our clocks are, they are always measuring something discrete—an interval, a repeating signal, a duration between events. This is the heart of the problem: We measure time as a duration and think of motion as continuous. The best definition of motion we have is intricately tangled between the discrete and continuous impressions of time and space.

Una persona de setenta kilos de peso contiene, entre otras cosas: — 45 litros de agua — Suficiente cal para encalar un gallinero — Suficiente fósforo para 2.200 cerillas — Grasa para alrededor de 70 pastillas de jabón — Hierro para un clavo de 2 pulgadas — Carbono para 9.000 minas de lápiz — Una cucharada de magnesio

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

containing anemometer, barograph, and thermograph, rigged over the stern. The geologist was making the best of what to him was an unhappy situation; but was not

La predicción se mueve en el interior del calendario y del tiempo mensurable; el profeta, en cambio, no se rige por las fechas, sino qu es él quien las instaura.

To use the molecular clock in such a way requires the calibration of its "ticking rate.