“To measure is to choose; to focus your attention on a single attribute and exclude all others.”
― Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
― Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it,’ said Thomson, ‘but 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 thoughts, advanced to the stage of Science.”
― Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
― Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
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