 | 1921 - 472 страници
...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...when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely,... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1892 - 436 страници
...progress. I can find no 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...you 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,... | |
 | Institution of civil engineers - 1884 - 200 страници
...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...when you 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,... | |
 | 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 страници
...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...when you 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,... | |
 | Richard Evan Day - 1884 - 220 страници
...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...when you 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... | |
 | William Dennis Marks - 1887 - 622 страници
...principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say, when you can measure what you are speaking...when you 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... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1919 - 680 страници
...which so appropriately grace a page of Professor Pearson's tables for biometricians — " When you can measure what you are speaking " about and express...you 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... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 страници
...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...when you 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,... | |
 | Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 270 страници
...reckoning, and methods of practically measuring some quality connected, ivith it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express...when you 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... | |
 | Franklin Leonard Pope - 1891 - 268 страници
...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... | |
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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... 
