Quotes About Measurement

His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.

?nsan gözü yeterince kesin bir 'ölçme aleti' de?ildir: Say?lar? do?rudan alg?lama gücü dört say?s?n? a?maz. Akdeniz K?y?lar?nda Hesap, s.82.

At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created. Tomorow was September 1

Biblical commentators [say that] the first six days of Genesis were six 24-hour days. This means that whoever was in charge recorded the passage of 24 hours per day. But who was there to measure the passage of time? Until Adam appeared on day six, God was watching the clock. And that is the key.

How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

If at first you don't succeed, try two more times so that your result is statistically significant.

Here's the way it works. You're going to find yourself at a crossroads.. There's going to be a dcision you'll have to make, an action to be taken or not, a choice between polar opposites. All of what you are and what you have been and what you could be will be measured on your decision. And the consequences? They don't just affect you. They affect everyone. This is not simple life and death - it's about eternity. Yours. Others'. Do not understimate how far this goes.

There are too much of them according to our scales, not to theirs... The more, the happier.

I tingled all over; I counted minutes and subtracted miles.

I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, 'Um, am I black enough?' - and I guess specifically, 'Am I German enough?' Why are we measuring blackness?

If your love for your wife can be measured, it is not big enough.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

See, there's the pie chart. If you look, you can see clear as day that the happy times -- the times when you think "How fun! I'm glad I'm alive" -- don't make up even one tenth of life. I'm work this out properly with a calculator, so there's no mistake.

His denomination, he says, is Empiricism. If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge wit with science, it didn't happen.

But the yardstick is not only contrived, it's too short: my consistently perfect scores don't tell them anything, because they have no basis for comparison this far out on the bell curve.

In fact, when compared against the timepieces normally employed for such calibration purposes, the turret clocks were all found to have resumed keeping perfect time.

When a prism was activated, a quantum measurement was performed inside the device, with two possible outcomes of equal probability: