Measurement Quotes

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

When I was 17, I was about 5'6''.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

Accountability goes hand in hand with reform.

What gets measured gets done.

Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.

We treasure what we can measure.

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical 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 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 meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

If you don't look for a problem, you won't find it.

I think that the important thing to consider here - Hubert Humphrey said that a society is measured by how he treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of life, and those in the twilight of life. And it is true that Terri Schiavo lives among us in the shadows of life, but she is not brain dead. She feels pain.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.

I always say, if you think it’s over the top then tell me where the top is first. I don’t think anyone can. But if you can tell me where the top is then I’ll tell you whether or not I’m over it.

Yards don't matter. The score is all that matters.

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It's part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

It's very easy to quantify performances and personal accolades, but ultimately, I'm in a team sport, and it's about winning.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.