Measurement Quotes

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”
― H. James Harrington

“The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.”
― John Hayes

“If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business

“Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.”
― David H. Hubel, The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography DVD Wiesel/Hubel

“Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist Robert W. Wood was asked to respond to a toast ... 'To physics and metaphysics.' Now by metaphysics was meant something like philosophy—truths that you could get to just by thinking about them. Wood took a second, glanced about him, and answered along these lines: The physicist has an idea, he said. The more he thinks it through, the more sense it makes to him. He goes to the scientific literature, and the more he reads, the more promising the idea seems. Thus prepared, he devises an experiment to test the idea. The experiment is painstaking. Many possibilities are eliminated or taken into account; the accuracy of the measurement is refined. At the end of all this work, the experiment is completed and ... the idea is shown to be worthless. The physicist then discards the idea, frees his mind (as I was saying a moment ago) from the clutter of error, and moves on to something else. The difference between physics and metaphysics, Wood concluded, is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.”
― Carl Sagan

“Love should never be too much or too less, yet it cannot be measured.”
― Rizi Dame C. Briz

“Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself. And what is any number, itself, but just another unit of measurement? What is a 'six' but two 'threes', or three 'twos'...half a 'twelve', or just six 'ones' - which are what?

(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”
― Mort W. Lumsden, Citations: A Brief Anthology

“The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Memories are not always the best measure of things.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope

“The only measurement I understand is perfection.”
― Amit Kalantri