Quotes About Measurement

Physics deals with quantities that can be measured. Thus, you won't find concepts such as honesty, love, and courage as primary topics of discussion in a physics book. As

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the value-forming substance, the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of this value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the value-forming substance, the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.

Der soziale Fortschritt kann an der sozialen Stellung des schönen Geschlechts gemessen werden, einschließlich der hässlichen Frauen.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.

Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

The worth of your strength cannot be measured in wages.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

Im 5 ft 1 ½. That bonus ½ is just as important because every little bit matters