 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: it may...  NIST Special Publication - Page xi1988Full view - About this book
 | 1921 - 472 pages
...reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express...beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thought, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be." (Constitution of Matter, 1891,... | |
 | 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 Evan Day - 1884 - 220 pages
...reckoning, and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that 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... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Sir William Henry Preece, Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell, Charles William Siemens, John Hopkinson, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel - 1884 - 204 pages
...reckoning, and methods for practicably measuring, some quality connected with it. I often say that 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... | |
 | Institution of civil engineers - 1884 - 200 pages
...reckoning, and methods for practicably measuring, some quality connected with it. I often say that 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... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1884 - 204 pages
...but 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...in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. I may illustrate by a case in which this first step has not been taken.... | |
 | 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 Dennis Marks - 1887 - 622 pages
...but 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...in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be." It was with the feeling so well expressed by Professor Thomson that in... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 pages
...reckoning and methods for practicably measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that 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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