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
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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