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.
God and Nature first made us what we are and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
All my life Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest freest' country in the world. By most measurements it was long a contender for that honor and - among the larger countries if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion not comparison and measurement.
Punk's influence on music movies art design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for and beauty of accurate measurement.
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?
I'm an underdog person so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.