Quotes About Scale

Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.

Architecting for the enterprise, when all you really need is a cute little desktop tool, is a recipe for failure.

Daily Law: The fact that you are aware of this insignificance and smallness is paradoxically what renders you powerful and significant. It is an understanding of reality that no other animal is capable of. Such awareness can begin to restore to you that sense of awe and connection that comes from a proper sense of scale.

Origami artists have made birds 1/64th of an inch long, and life-size elephants three yards high.

Light, Egwene thought. I wonder how long it's been since a meeting of this scale occurred.

Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.

The Western photographers also managed to put the people in scale with the landscapes, to the amazement of Easterners.

Gradually he was learning the size, the scale of the Ringworld. It was unpleasant, like all learning processes. He

Why hadn't they built a lot of little Ringworlds instead?

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science

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Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.

My granddaughter asked me how far away the Sun is. That question I couldn't answer with apples and oranges. But if you traveled to the Sun on a high-speed train, say at two hundred miles per hour, it would take about fifty years. She nodded. To get to the nearest star beyond the Sun on the same train would take about fifteen million years.

They had encountered fraud cases, even Ponzi schemes, before. But they had never faced anything on this scale. The tally of customer losses was staggering, and the victims were spread around the globe.

The whole universe tumbled in what seemed chaos, but he couldn't bring himself to use that word. The man who heard the land heard his own heart as if it were distant space struggling with its solar dust and clattering, its turbulence on a scale he couldn't comprehend.

do not view mountains from the scale of human thought

Longing on a large scale is what makes history.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.