 I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory.  The New Physics and Its Evolution - Pagina 19de Lucien Poincaré - 1907 - 344 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Gustave Le Bon - 1908 - 454 pagini
...scholar. "I often say," writes Lord Kelvin, " that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory." § 2. — The Measurement of the Irreducible Magnitudes... | |
 | Joseph William Mellor - 1912 - 896 pagini
...between the Acids and the Metals. I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. — LORD KKLVIN. The relation between the velocity and... | |
 | Alexander Findlay - 1916 - 288 pagini
...scientists, Lord Kelvin, said : " I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory." And it is because Dalton's theory is a quantitative theory,... | |
 | Joseph William Mellor - 1919 - 942 pagini
...Metals. I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a nunil«r, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. — LORD KELVIN. The relation between the velocity and... | |
 | Robert Herman Bogue - 1922 - 670 pagini
...EVALUATION OF GLUE AND GELATIN I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. Lord Kelvin (1880) The day is not far distant when glue... | |
 | William Mansfield Clark - 1928 - 758 pagini
...CHAPTER VI APPROXIMATE DETERMINATIONS WITH INDICATORS 7/ you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory.—LORD KELVIN. The distinctive advantages of the indicator... | |
 | William Mansfield Clark - 1928 - 760 pagini
...CHAPTER VI APPROXIMATE DETERMINATIONS WITH INDICATORS // you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. — LORD KELVIN. The distinctive advantages of the indicator... | |
 | Iowa Academy of Science - 1908 - 212 pagini
...audience. No one was more convinced than he that science is comprehensible measurable law for as he said, "if you can measure that of which you are speaking...something of your subject, but if you cannot measure it by a number your knowledge is of a sorry kind and hardly satisfactory." He had little concern for merely... | |
 | Joseph H. Hulse, National Research Council Canada - 1995 - 260 pagini
...cooling, once remarked: "If you can define precisely and measure accurately that of which you speak, and express it by a number, you know something of your subject. If you cannot accurately define and measure, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory." Not everyone... | |
 | Don McGlinchey - 2004 - 288 pagini
...scientific matters, who stated: 'When you can measure what you are talking about, and express it in numbers, you know something of your subject. But if you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.' In the... | |
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