Quotes About Measurement

Men," said Suzie. "Why don't you just get them out and measure them?

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

two hundred furlongs.

Doesn't the seventeenth-century use of the measurement yard for penis strike you as a bit of an exaggeration, unless the yard then was not the yard now?

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

No scale to balance, what's in my heart. No numbers to measure, nor even to chart. This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds. For only through time, can it's value be found.

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.

I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me.

Absolute value: the distance that a given number is from zero on a number line . . . always a positive

The tendency in many parts of medicine is, if we can't measure it, it doesn't exist, or the patient is cuckoo.

The idea was to measure everything and "make measurable" that which could not clearly be measured, to quote Galileo. That testable world was then subject to observation, hypotheses, and repeated experiments, forming what we now call the scientific method. And that method, we now know, can be applied to any study of nature, including the human body and its diseases.

That's why inflation is so easy to overlook—and why it's so important to measure your investing success not just by what you make, but by how much you keep after inflation.

defining what is important solely by what can be measured is a bad idea - like looking for lost keys not down a dark sidewalk where they were lost, but across the street under the lamppost where the light is better.

the comparative framework of sounds or tones that make up a musical scale. So while frequency is a physical property of sound—it's a measurement of the number of cycles per second of a sound wave—pitch refers to what we hear. The chromatic scale

Pitch is closely related to frequency, but the two are not the same thing. Pitch is mostly used in the comparative framework of sounds or tones that make up a musical scale. So while frequency is a physical property of sound—it's a measurement of the number of cycles

I learned the tyranny of figures before I knew the value of a pound.

How careful we must be not to think that God is less holy because others seem to get away with irreverence! We are sometimes tempted to measure our respect for God by the lack of respect surrounding us. The godless, however, are not our standard. God is. Through the pen of King David, God told us to "praise him according to his excellent greatness," not according to public opinion (Ps. 150:2 KJV).

Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.

The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of the signal was about one thousandth the size of a proton, what it did to our apparatus.

The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.