Measurement Quotes
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The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
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All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.
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From him Wilard Bennett I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.
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The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.
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Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
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Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important
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Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.
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In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.
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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
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It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.
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I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.
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Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
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Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.