 | 1921 - 472 pages
...mathematical procedure in science is therefore complete. As Lord Kelvin says: "In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your... | |
 | Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 268 pages
...direction of learning any subject, is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods of practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often...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... | |
 | Institute for Oceanography - 1967 - 812 pages
...features that otherwise could only be described in nondimensional terms. To quote Lord Kelvin (1824-1907): “I often say that when you can measure what you...numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind ; it may be the beginning... | |
 | 1918 - 922 pages
...measurements and units. Lord Kelvin in his "Popular Lectures" made this statement, "I often say when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it." The average teacher of high school physics has certainly accepted this at face... | |
 | 1918 - 984 pages
...measurements and units. Lord Kelvin in his "Popular Lectures" made this statement, "I often say when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it." The average teacher of high school physics has certainly accepted this at face... | |
 | Raymond Pearl - 1911 - 420 pages
...an exact physical science, Lord Kelvin, in an address on Electrical Units of Measurement. ' — « I often say that when you can measure what you are...numbers, you know something about it, but when you can not measure it, when you can not express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory... | |
 | Bertie Cotterell Wallis - 1911 - 398 pages
...SCHOOL HOLLOWAY, LONDON, N. MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON PREFACE "When you can measure what you are speaking about and express...numbers, you know something about it, but when you can not measure it, when you can not express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory... | |
 | 1911 - 368 pages
...toy from the scientific instrument. Here is what Lord Kelvin said about measurement : — ' When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it ; when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory... | |
 | John Conrad Hemmeter - 1912 - 274 pages
...preface to "Metaphys: Anfangsgrunde der Naturwissenschaft" (Werke) Ed. Hartenstein, Vol. IV, p. 360). "I often say that when you can measure what you are...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your... | |
 | 1912 - 722 pages
...as nearly all of its can be reckoned in the account by this system. Lord Kelvin has said "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your... | |
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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 meager and unsatisfactory kind... 
