Quotes About Quantification

Anything you need to quantify can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it at all. —Gilb's Law

If we incorrectly think that measurement means meeting some nearly unachievable standard of certainty, then few things will be measurable even in the physical sciences.

An onion-breathed technician in a lab coat measures the distance between Werner's temples, the circumference of his head, and the thickness and shape of his lips. Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel. They measure his penis. The angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

No doubt about it: numbers are the future. The world's been learning to count since the days of chivalry ended and it's only going to get worse. We're about to witness the end of everything that isn't quantifiable—honor, for example.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

The first step is to measure what can be easily measured. This is okay as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which cannot be measured, or give it an arbitrary quantitative value.This is artificial and misleading.The third step is to presume that what cannot be measured really is not very important.This is blindness.The fourth step is to say that what cannot be measured does not really exist. This is suicide.   I'm

If you're not thinking about numbers, you're probably not thinking.

without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live—that

We have become so obsessed with rational knowledge, objectivity, and quantification that we are very insecure in dealing with human values and human experience. - Margaret M. Lock

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

Discounting every punctuation mark and every space—which any printer knows occupy just as much time to set as does a single letter—there are no fewer than 227,779,589 letters and numbers.

How do you measure misery?

The heart of science is measurement.

You can't reduce passion and flair and eating ham to numbers, sir!

Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit.

For a complex natural shape, dimension is relative. It varies with the observer. The same object can have more than one dimension, depending on how you measure it and what you want to do with it. And dimension need not be a whole number; it can be fractional. Now an ancient concept, dimension, becomes thoroughly modern.

the Condor. "I don't interest myself in why. I think more often in terms of when. Sometimes where. Always how much.

As soon as you add an intensifier, you're turning an all-or-none dichotomy into a graduated scale.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

If we want something to count in our lives, we should figure out a way to count it.

I was reminded of Lord Kelvin's observation, overbroad but nevertheless thought-provoking: "When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.