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41 " The ruins stretch from the river to the base of that mountain over there, about half a kilometre.’ ‘How far is that in regular measurements?’ Percy asked. Frank rolled his eyes. ‘That is a regular measurement in Canada and the rest of the world. Only you Americans –’ ‘About five or six football fields,’ Hazel interceded, feeding Arion a big chunk of gold. Percy spread his hands. ‘That’s all you needed to say. "
― Rick Riordan , The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
42 " I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine. "
― John Muir
43 " Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it. "
44 " Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that. "
45 " GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things. "
46 " It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices. "
47 " I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. "
