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. The Evolution of Forces - Página 21por Gustave Le Bon - 1908 - 388 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Lucien Poincaré - 1907 - 376 páginas
..." I often say," Lord Kelvin has said, " that if you can measure that of which you are speaking and express it by a number you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it nor express it by a number, your knowledge is of a sorry kind and hardly satisfactory. It may be the... | |
| Joseph William Mellor - 1912 - 896 páginas
...has been devised. § 5. The Measurement of the Affinity between the Acids and the Metals. I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and...measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. — LORD KKLVIN. The relation between the velocity and the driving force of a moving body. — If a... | |
| Alexander Findlay - 1916 - 294 páginas
...the chlorine atom respectively. One of the greatest of scientists, Lord Kelvin, said: " I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and...it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory." And it is because Dalton's theory is a quantitative theory, or capable of quantitative expression,... | |
| Joseph William Mellor - 1919 - 942 páginas
...has been devised. 5 5. The Measurement of the Affinity 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 nunil«r, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre... | |
| Robert Herman Bogue - 1922 - 670 páginas
...chlorine method 7 1, 7 25, 7 4 7 3 2830 7 7, 7.7 CHAPTER X THE EVALUATION OF GLUE AND GELATIN I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and...measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory. Lord Kelvin (1880) The day is not far distant when glue and gelatin will be purchased on specification,... | |
| Albert Flandreau Dean - 1925 - 332 páginas
...measuring, and a faithful observer of nature is always occupied in measurement." Lord Kelvin says: "If you can measure that of which you speak and can express it by a number, you know some[ 13 ] thing of your subject, but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory."... | |
| National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board - 1972 - 988 páginas
...SOIL LOSSES In the 19th century, the noted British scientist, Lord Kelvin, made the statement (3): "If you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot. . ., your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory."... | |
| Iowa Academy of Science - 1908 - 212 páginas
...comprehensible measurable law for as he said, "if you can measure that of which you are speaking and express it by a number, you know 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... | |
| Lazer Goldberg - 1997 - 180 páginas
...science is not true about contemporary science, nor is it helpful in educating children. Kelvin's dictum, "If you can measure that of which you speak, and can...it by a number, you know something of your subject. If you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory," a model of science drawn from... | |
| Don McGlinchey - 2004 - 288 páginas
...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... | |
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