 | Franklin Leonard Pope - Telegraph - 1891 - 268 pages
...direction of learning any subject, is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods of practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often...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... | |
 | Institute for Oceanography - Oceanography - 1967 - 812 pages
...features that otherwise could only be described in nondimensional terms. To quote Lord Kelvin (1824-1907): “I often say that when you can measure what you...numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind ; it may be the beginning... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 924 pages
...measurements and units. Lord Kelvin in his "Popular Lectures" made this statement, "I often say when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it." The average teacher of high school physics has certainly accepted this at face... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 984 pages
...measurements and units. Lord Kelvin in his "Popular Lectures" made this statement, "I often say when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it." The average teacher of high school physics has certainly accepted this at face... | |
 | Raymond Pearl - 1911 - 420 pages
...an exact physical science, Lord Kelvin, in an address on Electrical Units of Measurement. ' — « I often say that when you can measure what you are...numbers, you know something about it, but when you can not measure it, when you can not express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory... | |
 | Bertie Cotterell Wallis - Geography - 1911 - 398 pages
...SCHOOL HOLLOWAY, LONDON, N. MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON PREFACE "When you can measure what you are speaking about and express...numbers, you know something about it, but when you can not measure it, when you can not express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory... | |
 | Education, Higher - 1911 - 368 pages
...toy from the scientific instrument. Here is what Lord Kelvin said about measurement : — ' When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it ; when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory... | |
 | Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale - Physics - 1913 - 522 pages
...To quote the words of Lord Kelvin, one of the greatest physicists of the last century : " When you can measure what you are speaking about, and* express it in numbers, you know something about it; and when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge... | |
 | Chemistry - 1913 - 452 pages
...it is about time that ridicule came and squashed them out of existence. Lord Kelvin said, " When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it." The matter contained in the two books mentioned above and in those that are to... | |
 | Fletcher Durell - Industrial efficiency - 1914 - 388 pages
...from any art, that which remains will not be much." In like manner Lord Kelvin says, "I often remark that when you can measure what you are speaking about...something about it; but when you cannot measure it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of 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 express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge,... 
