I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind... A Short History of Science - Page 341by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1892 - 436 pages
...better way of stating this than by repeating the words of Sir William Thomson: "I often say when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express...cannot express it in numbers,, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your... | |
| Richard Evans Day - 1884 - 222 pages
...principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind : it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your... | |
| Institution of civil engineers - 1884 - 200 pages
...principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practicably measuring, some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1884 - 204 pages
...principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practicably measuring, some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind : it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your... | |
| Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1919 - 680 pages
...which so appropriately grace a page of Professor Pearson's tables for biometricians — " When you can measure what you are speaking " about and express...cannot express it in " numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory "kind." All who have taken part in these researches have tried to act in... | |
| William Dennis Marks - 1887 - 608 pages
...reckoning, and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say, when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind ; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 pages
...principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practicably measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind : it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your... | |
| Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 276 pages
...principles of numerical reckoning, and methods of practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind ; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your... | |
| Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 268 pages
...principles of numerical reckoning, and methods of practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are...speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something nabout it ; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1892 - 434 pages
...better way of stating this than by repeating the words of Sir William Thomson: "I often say when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your... | |
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