 | 1921 - 472 էջ
...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...beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thought, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be." (Constitution of Matter, 1891,... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1892 - 436 էջ
...repeating the words of Sir William Thomson: "I often say when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something...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... | |
 | Richard Evan Day - 1884 - 220 էջ
...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...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... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Sir William Henry Preece, Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell, Charles William Siemens, John Hopkinson, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel - 1884 - 202 էջ
...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...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... | |
 | Institution of civil engineers - 1884 - 200 էջ
...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...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... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1884 - 204 էջ
...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...you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. I may illustrate by a case in which this first step has... | |
 | William Dennis Marks - 1887 - 622 էջ
...practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say, when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something...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... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1919 - 680 էջ
...of Professor Pearson's tables for biometricians — " When you can measure what you are speaking " about and express it in numbers, you know something...cannot express it in " numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory "kind." All who have taken part in these researches have tried to act in... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 էջ
...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...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... | |
 | Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 270 էջ
...measuring some quality connected, ivith it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something...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... | |
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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... 
