The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health.
Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives. . . Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.
Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.
Every high has an equal, measurable low.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition.
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.
. . . when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.
The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity. . . and you've got it made.
It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.
Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.
The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Stress is not a state of mind. . . it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.
I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.
