Quotes About Magnitude

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.

In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

field is two million times greater than the strength

leading Massachusetts Antifederalist Elbridge Gerry, who had also been an important dissenting delegate at the Philadelphia convention, noted that "however respectable the members may be who signed the Constitution, it must be admitted that a free people are the proper guardians of their rights and liberties—that the greatest men may err—and that their errors are sometimes of the greatest magnitude

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Size counts. That's all.

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

There's something satisfying, I think,' Evans said, 'about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it. It just seems right that an event of that magnitude should be witnessed.

If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately one million trillion, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived!.

0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001, or one ten million trillion trillion trillionths11 of a second.

Imagine a pile of TNT about the size of Rhode Island and reaching eight miles into the sky, to about the height of the highest cirrus clouds, and you have some idea of what visitors to Yellowstone are shuffling around on top of.

Only about 6,000 stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth, and only about 2,000 can be seen from any one spot. With binoculars the number of stars you can see from a single location rises to about 50,000, and with a small two-inch telescope it leaps to 300,000.

that huge proportions

It almost felt like too much, just by the sad weight of its being so little.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer. Because

Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer.

Europe seems to me much larger than America. (Chapter 12)

Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

Stop acting so small, you are as big as the universe!!!!!!!!