Are we to assume we are talking about braw Jock McBrown and his leaning towards a "force for good"?
As regards "measurement", I recall that it was Lord Kelvin who said; “I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of Science, whatever the matter may be.”