“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”

— Terence McKenna

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American ethnobotanist 1946–2000

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Context: It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of creating new (to you) results, and of your ability to surmount the almost infinite details to see the general situation.

“Physical strength is measured by what we carry.
Inner strength is measured by what we can bear.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it is a grave error to suppose that the whole of experimental physics can be brought under this heading. We can start measuring only when we know what to measure: qualitative observation has to precede quantitative measurement, and by making experimental arrangements for quantitative measurements we may even eliminate the possibility of new phenomena appearing.”

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]

“Everything we can measure seems small.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of creating new (to you) results, and of your ability to surmount the almost infinite details to see the general situation.”

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

“To me, the level of responsibility is measured by one's ability to confront the decision-making process without any delay or distraction.”

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam book Wings of Fire

Source: Wings of Fire, p. 96.

“The scale we measure things by is the measure of our own mind.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

Der Maßstab, den wir an die Dinge legen, ist das Maß unseres eigenen Geistes.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 52.

“What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.”

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer

"Matteo" in Concerning the New Star (1606)
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“Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.”

Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923) Mathematician and electrical engineer

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“Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.”

Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist

For example, those who want a high quality of work life but don't know how to measure it, often settle for wanting a high standard of living because they can measure it.
Source: 2000s, A little book of f-laws: 13 common sins of management, 2006, p. 4, bold text cited in: Colin J. Neill, Phillip A. Laplante, Joanna F. DeFranco (2011) Antipatterns: Managing Software Organizations and People.

“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”

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