Quotes About Quantifiable

Mathematics is not physics. The physical sciences can be weighed against each other. And against what we suppose to be the world. Mathematics cant be weighed against anything.

You just can't understand anything you can't get your hands on, anything you can't feel or see or, or count...

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.

I always get the funniest expressions from colleagues when I tell them that the best scientists understand that 2–3 percent of whatever it is they are studying is simply not quantifiable—it may be magic or aliens or random variance, none of which can be truly ruled out. If we are to be honest as scientists Ã¢â'¬Â¦ we must admit there may be a few things that we are not supposed to know. I

We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.