 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...  Birds in Our Lives - Seite 204von United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife - 1966 - 561 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1921 - 472 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1892 - 436 Seiten
...better way of stating this than by 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 about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers,, your knowledge... | |
 | Richard Evan Day - 1884 - 220 Seiten
...reckoning, and methods for practically 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... | |
 | Institution of civil engineers - 1884 - 200 Seiten
...reckoning, and methods for practicably 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... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Sir William Henry Preece, Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell, Charles William Siemens, John Hopkinson, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel - 1884 - 204 Seiten
...reckoning, and methods for practicably 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... | |
 | William Dennis Marks - 1887 - 608 Seiten
...reckoning, and methods for 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 about it ; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1919 - 680 Seiten
...which so appropriately grace a page of Professor Pearson's tables for biometricians — " 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... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 Seiten
...reckoning and methods for practicably 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... | |
 | Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 268 Seiten
...reckoning, and methods of practically 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 nabout it ; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1892 - 434 Seiten
...better way of stating this than by 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 about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge... | |
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