“Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.” KindMayRealityUnderstoodMethodEnterpriseMeasurement Author:Michael Crichton
“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.” MayBeautifulUsedPartyBeautyCasesObjectsColdLoversMethodPatientLawyerRuinsOperationsPhysicistInfatuationSpectatorsMeasurementSurgeonsUnattractiveGhastlyEpithetDescribe Me Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.” OrderBasesMethodSentencesOperationsDefiniteMeasurementVerificationTrue Or False Book:Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control Source: Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control
“Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.” MenFormCultureBeliefIssuesCenturyHigherProveEqualOppositesPrejudiceMethodGuiltyFranceRealmsStatisticsAdsMeasurementIndiana Author:Richard M. Weaver
“The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and accurate instruments, but they apply these to very inferior materials. The physical chemists combine both these characteristics in that they apply imprecise methods to impure materials.” UseHandsSciencePoorMaterialsMethodInstrumentsExcellenceVery GoodExcellentCharacteristicsAccurateInferiorsPhysicistMeasurementMeasuringChemist Author:Wolfgang Ostwald
“The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements. There is one space only, though we may conceive of many different manifolds, which are contrivances or ideal constructions invented for the purpose of determining space.” MayDifferentTruthSciencePurposeSpaceIdealsMethodConstructionMeasurementGeometryManifold Author:Paul Carus
“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.” KnowsFirstsKindMayMatterNumbersQualityStepsPrinciplesSubjectsStageEssentialsMethodConnectedMeasurementMeasuringReckoningPhysical ScienceMeasure For MeasureFlying Machines Author:Lord Kelvin
“We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.” WayTalkingMethodDefinitionsNonsenseQuantityAvoidingMeasurementMeasuringTalking Nonsense Book:Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein Source: Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein
“The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.” MayStillsEnergyStrongFieldsCapableMethodImprovementApplicationExtensionsParticlesMeasurementMagneticMagnetic Fields Author:Victor Francis Hess