Re: When you can measure you can know

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:25:49 -0500

Pmb wrote:

>
> Lord Kelvin is reported to have said:
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> 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 meager and unsatisfactory kind;
> it may be the beginning of knowledge but you have scarcely progressed in
> your thoughts to the stage of science whatever the matter may be.
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Be careful who you quote. The same Lord Kelven said in 1985 that heavier
than air flying machines would never be acheived. Eight years later a
pair of bicycle mechanics in Dayton Ohio showed how wrong he was.

Bob Kolker