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gone-ot · 10-19-2012, 11:32 AM

Diesel Dave -- I immediately thought of this quote from Lord Kelvin:

"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

Lecture on "Electrical Units of Measurement" (3 May 1883), published in Popular Lectures Vol. I, p. 73; quoted in Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety (1998) by Jeanne Mager Stellman, p. 1992"

...it's my philosophy, too, which I summarize by paraphrasing the Cuba Gooding, Jr. quote from the Jerry McGuire movie: "...show me the data..."

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gone-ot ...beats walking... Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,190 Thanks: 179 Thanked 1,525 Times in 1,126 Posts	Diesel Dave -- I immediately thought of this quote from Lord Kelvin: "I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. Lecture on "Electrical Units of Measurement" (3 May 1883), published in Popular Lectures Vol. I, p. 73; quoted in Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety (1998) by Jeanne Mager Stellman, p. 1992" ...it's my philosophy, too, which I summarize by paraphrasing the Cuba Gooding, Jr. quote from the Jerry McGuire movie: "...show me the data..." Last edited by gone-ot; 10-19-2012 at 05:46 PM..