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“An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.”

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John Henry Patterson was a prominent industrialist. Born on December 13, 1844, and passing away on May 7, 1922, Patterson made significant achievements in the industrial sector, particularly in invention and management. more

“In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical 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 is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”

Knows Firsts Kind May Matter Numbers Quality Steps Principles Subjects Stage Essentials Method Connected Measurement Measuring Reckoning Physical Science Measure For Measure Flying Machines

Author:Lord Kelvin

“It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.”

Enough Technique Measurement

Author:Arthur David Ritchie

“It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.”

Littles Done Together Framework Measurement Accuracy Decimals

Book:A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

Source: A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

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