Measurement Standards Quotes

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American.

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.