 | Tom Gilb - 2005 - 480 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 it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge... | |
 | Mark S. Mosko, Frederick H. Damon - 2005 - 302 pages
...for a turn to chaos. FROM LEVI-STRAUSS TO CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY Jack Morava "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... | |
 | Clarence W. de Silva - 2005 - 1872 pages
...deficiencies. We can all profit by taking seriously the following well-known words of Kelvin: 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... | |
 | Dan Green - 2005 - 280 pages
...the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state offacts and evidence. John Adams When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. William Thomson 2.1 SM particles — mapping into detector subsystems Chapter 1... | |
 | Joan Cassell - 2005 - 254 pages
...quantify an approach to dying in the ICU, he quoted Lord Kelvin, noted 19thcentury physicist: 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... | |
 | William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch, Victor L. Katch - 2006 - 794 pages
...techniques to measure and evaluate the diverse human energy transfer capacities. "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... | |
 | Helmut Z. Baumert, John H. Simpson, Jürgen Sündermann - 2005 - 664 pages
...observe the full spectrum of turbulent flows below the surface, it is generally necessary When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, vmi know something about it; but when veu cannot measure it. when you cannot express it in numbers,... | |
 | Trevor A. Kletz - 2001 - 262 pages
...I., 1996, Fatal Defect, Chapter 2 (Random House, New York, USA). Hazard analysis (Hazan) 'When you can measure what you are speaking about and express...numbers, you know something about it. ' Lord Kelvin 'The swift do not win the race, nor the strong the battle; bread does not belong to the wise, nor wealth... | |
 | H.R. Wu, K.R. Rao - 2017 - 640 pages
...quality driven picture coder. As William Thomson Kelvin (Physicist, 1824-1907) once said, "When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it." This once again highlights the importance of perceptual picture quality metrics... | |
 | Barry Blesser, Linda-Ruth Salter - 2009 - 453 pages
...inquiry, William Thomson (Lord) Kelvin (1894) articulated the objective, quantitative ideal, "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 as numbers, your knowledge... | |
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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 meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may... 
