Top 196 Measurement Quotes & Sayings

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

The concept of 'measurement' becomes so fuzzy on reflection that it is quite surprising to have it appearing in physical theory at the most fundamental level ... does not any analysis of measurement require concepts more fundamental than measurement? And should not the fundamental theory be about these more fundamental concepts?

I've kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I'm doing.

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one's success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of measuring success.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

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

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.

We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

The heart of science is measurement.

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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.

All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.

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.

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.

The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this purpose he requires that an exact measurement may be taken in an equally invariable manner anywhere in the world... Also, the history of electricity yields a well-known truth-that the physicist shirking measurement only plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and the construction of his toys.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

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

Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading (Cuhel), and not an act of measuring. It was a mistake to search for a measure of the value of goods. In the last analysis, economic calculation does not rest on the measurement of values, but on their arrangement in an order of rank.

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.

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.