Measuring

“Civilization today is a civilization of measuring, although we are often unaware of this. Each day many billions of data are measured, without which we simply could not function. The branch of science called metrology strives toward introducing order in measuring and in the development of its principles, while informatics works to bring this flood of data to an accessible, apprehensible and usable level.”

Slobodan Ribnikar (From the catalogue of the exhibition The World of Measuring, 1995)