I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.
Bill JamesRead
There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the joy of discovering measurable aspects of seemingly intangible concepts.
Bill James highlights the challenge and excitement in the pursuit of quantifying elements of life that are not easily measured. His statement reflects a deeper curiosity about uncovering value in areas typically deemed immeasurable, showing how innovation often lies in redefining our understanding of what can be quantified.
Themes
MeasurementIntangibleInnovationCuriosityDiscovery
In practice
Example use cases
In a team meeting discussing potential project outcomes.
More from Bill James
All quotes →Similar quotes
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
Mae JemisonRead
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
Richard DawkinsRead
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.
George MonbiotRead
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al GoreRead
It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology is now a science in which theories can be devised: theories which lead to predictions and predictions which sometimes turn out to be correct. These facts confirm me in a belief I hold most passionately-that biology is the heir of all the sciences.
Peter MedawarRead
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceRead