Quotes About Measurement

I had loved studying the map because it was a printed explanation of where I had been placed on earth. It was a love song to location, a psalm of praise to both measurement and extent.

Trust is a measurement of my sense of safety with you.

I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

On the Newton Scale, the temperature of boiling water is thirty-three degrees.

In 1792 their decimal calendar replaced the 7-day week by a 10-day week called a décade, each day of which was given a Latin numerical name, three of which comprised a month. The day was divided into ten hours, each consisting of 100 minutes, each minute of 100 seconds.

I'm not sure what I.Q. is anyway. Prof. Nemur said it was something that measured how intelligent you were—like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didn't weigh intelligence at all. He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.

"The shekel is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina."

"Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel."

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

time as a sense of before and after, or a measurement of motion, is of course subjective, and highly relative; but a tree will age, wither and decay whether or not the lapse of time is measured or perceived.

Babylonian mathematics rested on a division of the circle into 360 degrees

They measured time by a clepsydra or water-clock, and a sun-dial, and these seem to have been not merely developed but invented by them.

They divided the year into twelve lunar months, six having thirty days, six twenty-nine; and as this made but 354 days in all, they added a thirteenth month occasionally to harmonize the calendar with the seasons

The division of our month into four weeks, of our clock into twelve hours (instead of twenty-four), of our hour into sixty minutes, and of our minute into sixty seconds, are unsuspected Babylonian vestiges in our contemporary world.XVI

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

In a time of dearth, come forth with weight and measure.

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.

Of course we measure ourselves by many standards. Our strength and our intelligence, our wealth and even our good luck, are things which warm our heart and make us feel ourselves a match for life. But deeper than all such things, and able to suffice until itself without them, is the sense of the amount of effort which we can put forth.

Oh, time," Dane said. "Time time time. Time's always a bit more fiddly than you reckon.

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

A million seconds is 12 days. A billion is 1,000 times greater than 1,000,000. A billion seconds is 32 years.

Calendar time is easier to feel than number counts.