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The heart of science is measurement.

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.

Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.