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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Important Human How Again

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Nature Sky God Great

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

People Think Free Philosophy

I've kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I'm doing.

Laughter Doing Kind Stopped

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

Education Good Science Business

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Love Me You Sacrifice

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

Daniel Kahneman

Health Know Want Well-Being

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

Work Good Good Work See

GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

Jack Dangermond

Science Together Modeling Understand

At best, a 100-day measurement of a new presidency is a meaningless abstraction. At worst, it's an invite to cheap politicking at the expense of the common good.

Best Good New Worst

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There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

You Result Possible Two

The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.

Werner Heisenberg

Alone Knowledge Uncertainty Values

The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.

Werner Heisenberg

Past Uncertainty Position First

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Gerald Jampolsky

Love Fear Love Is Questions

Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.

You Job Will Your

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

You America Like Accomplished

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

Penelope Wilton

Life History You My Life

I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.

Life Mother Wife Poetry

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Myself Pizza Down Make

The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Family Child Situation Difference

The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

Nation Welfare GDP Income

Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and - most of all - accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.

Work Success Fear Joy

The important thing is not the measurement of how many or few things you have, but your own state of mind and how you feel about the things you have and don't have.

You Mind Feel Important

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Erwin Schrodinger

Preparation Meaning Physics Process

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

Gregory Bateson

Numbers Next Product Because

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

Myself People Care Measure

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