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• You cannot have a science without measurement. -- R. W. Hamming
• I am a firm believer in socialism and I know that the quicker you have monopoly in this country the quicker you will have socialism.
  -- Charles P. Steinmetz...
• It is through the use of logic and of precise, careful measurement that we become aware of our progress.
  Without such tools, we have no reference points to indicate how far we have advanced or retreated....
• There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
  -- Charles P. Steinmetz...
• After this was written there appeared a remarkable posthumous memoir that throws some doubt on Millikan's leading role in these experiments.
  Harvey Fletcher (1884-1981), who was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, at Millikan's suggestion worked on the measurement of electronic charge for his doctoral thesis, and co-authored some of the early papers on this subject with Millikan....
• We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds -- the booby and the noddy.
  .. Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors, that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer....
• First Law of Kitchen Confusion: In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.
• The rate at which a disease spreads through a corn field is a precise measurement of the speed of blight.