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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... "
To Extend the Defense Production Act of 1950: As Amended, Hearings Before ... - Page 268
by United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee - 1970 - 567 pages
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Science, Volume 19

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 it...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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Exercises in Electrical and Magnetic Measurement

Richard Evan Day - 1884 - 220 pages
...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 it...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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The Practical Applications of Electricity: A Series of Lectures Delivered at ...

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Sir William Henry Preece, Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell, Charles William Siemens, John Hopkinson, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel - 1884 - 202 pages
...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 it...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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The practical applications of electricity, lectures

Institution of civil engineers - 1884 - 200 pages
...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 it...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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The Relative Proportions of the Steam-engine: Being a Rational and Practical ...

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 it...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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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Volume 82

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...
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Popular Lectures and Addresses, Volume 1

William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 pages
...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 it...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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Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph: A Technical Handbook for ...

Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 270 pages
...and methods of practically measuring some quality connected, ivith it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it...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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Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph: A Technical Handbook for ...

Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 268 pages
...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 is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind ; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your...
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Science, Volume 19

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 it...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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