 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...  Science - Page 127edited by - 1892Full 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...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... | |
 | 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...knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory "kind." All who have taken part in these researches have tried to act in the spirit of Lord Kelvin's aphorism.... | |
 | Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 268 pages
...reckoning, and methods of practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that 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... | |
 | Institute for Oceanography - 1967 - 812 pages
...be described in nondimensional terms. To quote Lord Kelvin (1824-1907): “I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express...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... | |
 | Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 268 pages
...often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you knotv something about it ; but when you cannot measure it,...of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind ; it may be the 1 eginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science, whatever... | |
 | 1918 - 922 pages
...school physics is in 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
...school physics is in 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... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 758 pages
...finding true principles for numerical reckoning and methods for measuring. " I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express...knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." He commented on the advance made in electrical measurement. Ten years ago the scientific instrument-maker... | |
 | Raymond Pearl - 1911 - 420 pages
...science, Lord Kelvin, in an address on Electrical Units of Measurement. ' — « I often say that 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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