...physician. On the importance of quantitative analysis: "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your...

...CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY Jack Morava "I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about...cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." William Thomson [Lord Kelvin), Lecture to the Institution of Civil...

...you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind “. Of course, the knowledge we need in engineering is often of a ??meagre...

...1.4 Why a Computational Theory? Lord Kelvin, the famous British physicist, is reputed to have said, "When you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind." Many would disagree—the theory of evolution does not require numbers for a quite satisfactory expression...

...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 case of human beings, there are many qualities that are impossible...

...mechanism for objective evaluation. Lord Kelvin once said: When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatiifactory kind: it may...

...with the silver technique. In my opinion, this type of quantitation satisfies Lord Kelvin's axiom: When you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science whatever the matter may be. The...

...topics. BOX 21.3 Lord Kelvin's Curse / often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about...knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be —Lord Kelvin, Addresses (1883) We have...

...any science is measurement. As Lord Kelvin put it: When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about...knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. 74 Chapter 2 A Risk Management Framework We can begin to approach...

...then it is not science." The full quotation is: "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about...kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you are scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be." (Kelvin...