## Metadata - Author: [[Robert P. Crease]] - Full Title: World in the Balance - Category: #books ## Highlights - We tend to trust measurements—and without such trust, modern life would grind to a halt like a machine drained of oil. The deepest paradox of modern life is that we depend so extensively on such accuracy with so much trust. Abuses of measurement in the modern world tend to take a different form: equating the real with the measurable, and putting too much trust in measurement to establish such fundamentally unmeasurable things as intelligence, happiness, self-esteem, educational quality, and so forth. ([Location 295](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005LW5J94&location=295))