Quotes About Measurement

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.

If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

A lot of people went to posh universities, but I left at 17 to work for three years at Frank Newton's Gentleman's Outfitters in Shrewsbury, where I gained a professional qualification in how to measure a suit.

Nowhere are emissions monitored constantly. So the truth is that the real quantity of dioxin emissions from incineration remains unknown.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

When I want to quickly take a measurement, I use my Stanley Laser Distance Measurer. You just put it on the wall, and it shoots a laser and instantly tells you the exact distance to the other wall within a fraction of an inch.

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

The limiting of the knowable to the quantifiable was itself a value that was not quantifiable

Train with decisiveness the task of measuring whether you can do this.

The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

Over years, the noise level will be brought down, and LIGO will be three times better and see three times farther.

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.