Quotes About Magnitude

We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

If your love for your wife can be measured, it is not big enough.

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

You're not expressing a lot of emotion about these things." "Oh. Well. They're too big.

The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small, from a universe that began in a space far tinier than the period at the end of this sentence to one that is now many billions of light-years across.

In one single underground deposit alone scientists have found a huge slab of frozen water—ice that's six times the area of New England and more than 100 feet deep.

Few things are harder to predict accurately than the timing and magnitude of financial crises, because the financial system is so genuinely complex and so many of the relationships within it are non-linear, even chaotic.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

esa desproporción monstruosa entre el enanismo de su complexión y la dimensión

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?

Nadas que são enormes dentro do vazio.

Todo lo que es grande inspira un horror sagrado. Es fácil admirar las medianías y las colinas; pero lo que es grandísimo, genio o monte, asamblea u obra maestra, visto de cerca espanta.

Black wanted to discuss everything that had since been green-lighted, but most of it remained classified. He could only hint at the magnitude of the problems caused by skittishness among policy makers—and their recent conversion to born-again belligerence in the war on terror.

Most people say it makes them feel smaller. Like the world is so big, it makes

bigger numbers make better headlines.

Ninthly, only verbally is it possible to deny infinite space, as is done by pertinacious fellows. For the rest of space where the universe is not, which is called void, where indeed it is pretended that nothing doth exist, cannot be conceived as without the capacity to contain no less a magnitude than that which it doth contain.

The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.

This was the first time anyone suggested the genome was an information store measurable in bits. Shannon's guess was conservative, by at least four orders of magnitude.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.