Quotes About Magnitude

It's hard to get your head around the scale of Australia.

If all the heavens with all their stars exploded in this valley, they would be but a leaf fluttering in the wind. Here a tiny fish is mightier than a whale and nobody can say why.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

and besides, positing universe as program didn't seem to answer the Big Questions so much as kick them down the road another order of magnitude.

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

I've been to Vector Arena, and I've seen it. I've stood in the middle and just appreciated the space, appreciated the volume of the place.

There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves.

It's great when you see things on a massive scale and you see these huge sets, but it's not the be-all and end-all - it can be about characters as well.

If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it.

Googol?'' ''That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. 

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It

Indudablemente los filósofos están en lo cierto cuando nos dicen que nada es grande ni pequeño sino por comparación.

The movement of a man's finger is as important or unimportant as the most terrible catastrophe, for as against the Infinite both are of the same dimension.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.

Bigger is always better.

To me, bigger is better.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

Think of this for a moment. In eighteen milliliters of water (about two swallows full), there are 6 x 1023 molecules of H2O. How much is 6 x 1023? A good computer can carry out ten million counts per second. It would take that computer two billion years to count to 6 x 1023. Look

Aren't our problems so small when we look at something big, like the sky?

Action is a business of risk; the real question is the magnitude of that risk.