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" IN physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject, is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practicably measuring, some quality connected with it. "
Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements ... - Page xiii
by Tom Gilb - 2005 - 480 pages
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Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - 906 pages
...1866, in SPT. 1, 504. 20 Measurement and marketing: the economics of electricity In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practicably measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure...
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Action and Performance: Models and Tests : Contributions to the Quantitative ...

Jerzy Brzeziński, Tadeusz Marek - 1990 - 244 pages
...directly from physical science (Zadeh l975) where as pointed out by Kelvin in the XIX century, "... a first essential step in the direction of learning...methods for measuring some quality connected with it". The above premise is also the result of traditional scientific thinking, based primarily on the Aristotelian...
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Lord Kelvin: His Influence on Electrical Measurements and Units

Paul Tunbridge - 1992 - 132 pages
...electrical measurement, Kelvin began with a statement which bears repetition: 'In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning...is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practicably measuring, some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure...
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Measuring the Performance and Intelligence of Systems: Proceedings of the ...

Alex Meystel, E. R. Messina - 2001 - 688 pages
...the context of the statement above, we see some expression of qualifications that are also revealing: "In physical science the first essential step in the...methods for measuring some quality connected with it. [Here follows, "I often say that", as cited above.] but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced...
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Signal Integrity: Simplified

Eric Bogatin - 2004 - 612 pages
...inconvenience. II. The most expensive rule is the one that delays the product ship. SlGNAL INTEGRlTY SIMPLIFIED In physical science the first essential step in the...direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numencal reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say...
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Best Practices in Software Measurement: How to Use Metrics to Improve ...

Christof Ebert - 2005 - 320 pages
...Goals that are measured will be achieved! 3 Planning the Measurement Process In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practicably measuring some quality connected with it. —Lord Kelvin 3.1 Software Measurement...
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Fundamentals of Structural Geology

David D. Pollard, Raymond C. Fletcher - 2005 - 520 pages
...945) by permission of the AAPG whose permission is required for further use. In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practical methods for measuring some quality connected with it. 1 often say that when you can measure...
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Software Measurement: Establish - Extract - Evaluate - Execute

Christof Ebert, Reiner Dumke - 2007 - 561 pages
...and evaluations carefully and appropriately in different software environments. In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practicably measuring some quality connected with it. Lord Kelvin 4.1. Software Measurement...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1885 - 560 pages
...explained by the quotation in the preface from a lecture by Sir W. Thomson : — " In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure...
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Implementing the ISO 9000 Series

Lamprecht - 1993 - 290 pages
...knowledge about a process was perhaps first expressed by Lord Kelvin when he stated: In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practicably measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure...
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