What's this Kelvin quote doing here, don't you know this is THE list of
anecdote and speculation?

:)

Lets add Fermi to the mix:

"There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the
hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary
to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."

Alistair
'82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/

On 10-Mar-06, at 8:28 AM, Pensioner wrote:

Full quote:

"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in
numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it,
when
you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and
unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have
scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science."

Sorry about that.