As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. John Olver American Politician More John Olver Quotes 0
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. Carl D. Anderson American Scientist More Carl D. Anderson Quotes 0
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply. Leo Bogart More Leo Bogart Quotes 0
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. Amar Bose American Inventor More Amar Bose Quotes 0
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. Doug Coupland Canadian Author More Doug Coupland Quotes 0
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. Daniel Goleman American Author More Daniel Goleman Quotes 0
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. Erica Jong American Novelist More Erica Jong Quotes 0
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. Victor Francis Hess American Physicist More Victor Francis Hess Quotes 0
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. Audrey Hepburn Belgian Actress More Audrey Hepburn Quotes 0
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. Antony Hewish British Scientist More Antony Hewish Quotes 0
In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. James C. Maxwell Scottish Mathematician More James C. Maxwell Quotes 0
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. Martin Lewis Perl American Physicist More Martin Lewis Perl Quotes 0
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. Charles Francis Richter American Scientist More Charles Francis Richter Quotes 0
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Dennis Prager American Journalist More Dennis Prager Quotes 0
I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder. David Spade American Actor More David Spade Quotes 0
That's just one measure of the impacts in the Coachella Valley. There's any other number of measurements. ... It's a reflection of the growth. Allyn Waggle More Allyn Waggle Quotes 0
The measurements show long-term trends. Glaciers react to climate change, and warmer temperatures in the Alps are reflected in the results. Andreas Bauder More Andreas Bauder Quotes 0
The idea that chaos interferes with measurements in atomic-force microscopy has been sort of an urban myth over the years, but we have now proven this to be a fact. Arvind Raman More Arvind Raman Quotes 0
The human body is very complex and the accuracy levels required from blood glucose measurements must be very high. A single technology was not enough to create the necessary accuracy. Avner Gal More Avner Gal Quotes 0
The control system takes measurements from the driver, such as the steering angle and speed, and tilts the vehicle to the required angle to go round the corner. Ben Drew More Ben Drew Quotes 0
It was very fortuitous for our moorings to be installed right in the path of Ivan. From theses measurements we have learned that waves over 90 feet are not rogue waves , but are actually fairly common in hurricanes. Bill Teague More Bill Teague Quotes 0
[Coupled with measurements of their brightness, this will enable the scientists to estimate the ages of the stars, and to improve existing models of stellar evolution.] One of the uglier secrets of astronomy, ... is that nobody knows anything about ages of stars. Stars do not come with sell-by dates. Charles Beichman More Charles Beichman Quotes 0
Our findings show the importance of looking at objective as well as subjective measurements of how the body responds to pain stimuli. Charles Emery More Charles Emery Quotes 0
We report today the most precise measurements of our infant universe. Charles Bennett More Charles Bennett Quotes 0