Quotes About Measurement

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

We used to go to the fairground, and there's that punchable thing that measures your power. It was from one of those that I knew I could punch.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it.

Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

Archaeologists often distinguish calibrated from uncalibrated dates by writing the former in upper-case letters and the latter in lower-case letters (for example, 3000 B.C. vs. 3000 B.C., respectively).

tests of cognitive ability (like IQ tests) tend to measure cultural learning and not pure innate intelligence, whatever that is.

If one defines "big" as "weighing over 100 pounds," then only 14 such species were domesticated before the twentieth century

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

Mancando le qualità morali di misura precisa, se anche ci fosse l'accordo sul segno, come ci potrebbe essere sulla valutazione?

L'angoisse humaine n'est pas quantifiable, elle n'est pas un élément de l'analyse macroéconomique. N'étant pas mesurable, elle n'existe pas pour le FMI

The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm and wonderful, but because nature measures nothing. Nobody needs this much sunlight. Nobody needs droughts, volcanoes, monsoons, tornadoes either, but we get them, because our world is as extravagant as a world can be. We are the ones obsessed by measurement. The world just pours it out.

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That's not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away.

There are thirteen moons every calendar year. They measure time differently on the moon. The moon orbits the earth once every 28 days As though she's looking for something she lost. A long time ago.