Measurability Quotes

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.