“The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.”
Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley (1828–1921) English judge
In re McGrath (Infants), L. R. 1 C. D. (1893), p. 148.
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“The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.”
Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley (1828–1921) English judge
In re McGrath (Infants), L. R. 1 C. D. (1893), p. 148.
“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…
As quoted in The Ultimate Book of Quotations by Joseph Demakis, p. 415 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=kOnjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA415&lpg=PA415&dq=%22I+measure+the+progress+of+a+community+by+the+degree+of+progress+which+women+have+achieved.%22&source=bl&ots=6Sioo741pq&sig=noA7WLMLys1qWi5_CHIYKkWg9j0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIzc7x1feSyAIVRhmOCh24BAME#v=onepage&q=%22I%20measure%20the%20progress%20of%20a%20community%20by%20the%20degree%20of%20progress%20which%20women%20have%20achieved.%22&f=false
“Money income is a flawed measure of individual welfare.”
Nicholas Barr (1943) British economist
Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 6, Problems Of Definition And Measurement, p. 128
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
"Matteo" in Concerning the New Star (1606)
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Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
Context: Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement. Convinced of the supreme importance of ridding the municipalities of the institutions of tyranny, the most strenuous advocates of independence, instead of spending their efforts mainly in the general Congress, devoted themselves to their home localities, endeavoring to work out of the minds of their neighbors and fellow-colonists the institutions of entailed property, of a State-Church, of a class-divided people, even the institution of African slavery itself. Though largely unsuccessful, it is to the measure of success they did achieve that we are indebted for such liberties as we do retain, and not to the general government.
“I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.”
Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) American politician
Source: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 175.
Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886) American politician, 21st President of the United States (in office from 1881 to 1885)
Veto message of Rivers and Harbor Bill (1882).
1880s
Hendrik Casimir (1909–2000) Dutch physicist
in his memoirs, as quoted by [Jean Matricon, G. Waysand, Charles Glashausser, The cold wars: a history of superconductivity, Rutgers University Press, 2003, 0813532957, 18]
Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) American physicist
Source: The Quark and the Jaguar (1994), Ch. 12 : Quantum Mechanics and Flapdoodle, pp. 172-173 see EPR paradox.
Context: The false report that measuring one of the photons immediately affects the other leads to all sorts of unfortunate conclusions.... the alleged effect... would violate the requirement of relativity theory that no signal... can travel faster than the speed of light. If it were to do so, it would appear to observers in some states of motion that the signal were traveling backward in time.
“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
Source: The Archaic Revival