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" 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 341
by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 474 pages
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A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement

Ian Whitelaw - 2007 - 172 pages
...HUMAN AtTIVITY. ln the words of Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, ". . . when vou can measure what von are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you...something about it: but when you cannot measure it, when vou cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be...
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A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement

Ian Whitelaw - 2007 - 172 pages
...Thomson, Lord Ke1uin, ". . . when you can measure wbat you are speaking about, and express it in numhers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numhers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may he the heginning of knowledge,...
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Measure What Matters to Customers: Using Key Predictive Indicators (KPIs)

Ronald J. Baker - 2007 - 188 pages
...slightly inaccurately — in the stones of the Social Science Building at the University of Chicago: When you cannot measure it, when you 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...
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Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: An Essential Guide for 21st Century ...

Kenneth B. Ackerman - 2007 - 238 pages
...Massengill High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Jack Kinder ... when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind ... William Thompson, Lord Kelvin Revisiting a Not-So-Tired Topic What, metrics again? Aren't we getting...
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Performance Measurement. Definitionen, Erwartungen und die unternehmerische ...

Bettina Blachnitzky - 2007 - 52 pages
...Abbildung 1: Traditionelle Kennzahlensysteme versus Performance Measurement 5 III l Einleitung „When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it... (otherwise) your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be...
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Measurement Uncertainty: An Approach via the Mathematical Theory of Evidence

Simona Salicone - 2007 - 228 pages
...Uncertainty in Measurement 1.1 Introduction In 1889, the famous physicist Lord Kelvin stated: 'When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; otherwise your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.' This famous statement...
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The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of ...

Stuart Clark, Stuart G. Clark - 2007 - 236 pages
...peerage, he once delivered a lecture at the Institute of Civil Engineers in which he had said, "When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it." Such a belief had served him well, especially when he used mathematics to help...
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Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the ...

Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts, Grace Beber - 2007 - 517 pages
...Intelligent Signal Test, proposition, robot, semantic, subcognition, tagging, Turing Test, World Wide Web I often say that when you can measure what you are...knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind. (Thompson, 1891) Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project R. Epstein et al. (eds.), Parsing the Turing...
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