84 Quotes About Measurement

[T]he probabilistic nature of the Schrödinger equation, which predicts only the likelihood of different experimental outcomes, leaves it offering no reason why one specific outcome is observed instead of another. In effect, it says that quantum events (the radioactive decay of an atom, say) happen for no reason.

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.

In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.

Judgmental heart has lack of introspection.

That which cannot be measured cannot be proven.

Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

The measurement of illness, Breslow was arguing, is an inherently subjective activity: it inevitably ends up being a measure of ourselves. Objective decisions come to rest on normative ones.

What the clock reads is the measure you set

Judging others is just wasting your time, giving your advice to men who don't pay.