#measure

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#commitment #controlled #derive #economy #genuinely

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#measured #must #race #true #true worth

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#nature #profit #right #state

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#best #friendships #his #man #measures

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#centuries #certainly #civilized #distant #exterminate

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#down #eating #find #get #gets

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#greatest #greatest number #measure #number #people

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #hours #measure #measured #wisdom

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#biggest #biology #budgets #century #discoveries