Quotes for All
A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. … Read more
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥ Everett Ruess
The radiation of radium was contagious-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable activity which a sensitive apparatus could detect. Eve Curie
Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning. Erwin Schrodinger
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. Erwin Schrodinger
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. Erwin Schrodinger
The heart of science is measurement. Erik Brynjolfsson
Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. Erica Jong
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. Enrico Fermi
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. Enrico Fermi