...scholar. "I often say," writes Lord Kelvin, " that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory." § 2. — The Measurement of the Irreducible Magnitudes...

...between the Acids and the Metals. I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. — LORD KKLVIN. The relation between the velocity and...

...scientists, Lord Kelvin, said : " I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory." And it is because Dalton's theory is a quantitative theory,...

...Metals. I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a nunil«r, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. — LORD KELVIN. The relation between the velocity and...

...EVALUATION OF GLUE AND GELATIN I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. Lord Kelvin (1880) The day is not far distant when glue...

...CHAPTER VI APPROXIMATE DETERMINATIONS WITH INDICATORS 7/ you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory.—LORD KELVIN. The distinctive advantages of the indicator...

...CHAPTER VI APPROXIMATE DETERMINATIONS WITH INDICATORS // you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. — LORD KELVIN. The distinctive advantages of the indicator...

...audience. No one was more convinced than he that science is comprehensible measurable law for as he said, "if you can measure that of which you are speaking...something of your subject, but if you cannot measure it by a number your knowledge is of a sorry kind and hardly satisfactory." He had little concern for merely...

...cooling, once remarked: "If you can define precisely and measure accurately that of which you speak, and express it by a number, you know something of your subject. If you cannot accurately define and measure, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory." Not everyone...

...scientific matters, who stated: 'When you can 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...