Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. Erica Jong
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. Marie-Louise von Franz
The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old measurements. George Bernard Shaw
All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced. Carl Friedrich Gauss
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. Willis Lamb
Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. Robert Charles Winthrop