If You Can Not Measure

Quaternions Came From Hamilton After His Really Good Work Had Been Done, And Though Beautifully Ingenious, Have Been An Unmixed Evil To Those Who Have Touched Them In Any Way.

Suppose That You Could Mark The Molecules In A Glass Of Water; Then Pour The Contents Of The Glass Into The Ocean And Stir The Latter Throughly So As To Distribute The Marked Molecules Uniformly Throughout The Seven Seas; If Then You Took A Glass Of Water Anywhere Out Of The Ocean, You Would Find In It About A Hundred Of Your Marked Molecules.

Can You Measure It? Can You Express It In Figures? Can You Make A Model Of It? If Not, Your Theory Is Apt To Be Based More Upon Imagination Than Upon Knowledge.

Accurate And Minute Measurement Seems To The Non-scientific Imagination, A Less Lofty And Dignified Work Than Looking For Something New. But Nearly All The Grandest Discoveries Of Science Have Been But The Rewards Of Accurate Measurement And Patient Long-continued Labour In The Minute Sifting Of Numerical Results.

Vortices Of Pure Energy Can Exist And, If My Theories Are Right, Can Compose The Bodily Form Of An Intelligent Species.