I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.
There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.
The heart of science is measurement.
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.