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Quotes About Measurement

While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets.
~ Carrie Lam
I didn't set out specifically to be a manager, but once you end up in that role you want to be measured against the best in the profession.
~ Chris Hughton
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.
~ Miguel Nicolelis
You never know if there is anyone faster than me, but I know my speed and most of the time I use it for good, but I don't know if there is anyone faster.
~ Adama Traore
I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.
~ Rachael Ray
Every conscientious husband and wife should measure their marriage by the unchanging standard of the principles found in God's Word.
~ Myles Munroe
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.
~ Rudolf Virchow
When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.
~ Protagoras
It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.
~ Havilah Babcock
He no longer had an accurate visual memory of the size of the moon in the sky, and so he could not estimate how many times larger the cloud was.
~ Neal Stephenson
from a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether
~ Neal Stephenson
What is BFR?" asked Pete Starling. For the graph's vertical scale was labeled thus. "Bolide Fragmentation Rate
~ Neal Stephenson
Time is a person-made concept.
~ Ned Vizzini
Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
When you are 31 years, 7 months, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds old, you've lived your billionth second.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The day gets about one second longer every 67,000 years.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
But it doesn't make for good science. Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Decade by decade: estimates of Pluto's size got smaller and smaller.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The closest anybody has come is to presume dark energy is a quantum effect—where the vacuum of space, instead of being empty, actually seethes with particles and their antimatter counterparts. They pop in and out of existence in pairs, and don't last long enough to be measured.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
So what is the stuff? Nobody knows. The closest anybody has come is to presume dark energy is a quantum effect—where the vacuum of space, instead of being empty, actually seethes with particles and their antimatter counterparts. They pop in and out of existence in pairs, and don't last long enough to be measured.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
apparently, for residents of Missouri. But it doesn't make for good science. Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson