Quotes About Magnitude

God, living is enormous!

Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!

Could a being create the fifty billion galaxieseach with two hundred billion starsthen rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God's vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.

Something needn't be large to be good.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

To a great mind, nothing is little.

Heaven is shaped like a cube, somewhere in the vicinity of 1,400 miles wide, long, and high. That's a really big cube.

It is a century now since Darwin gave us the first glimpse of the origin of species. We know now what was unknown to all the preceding caravan of generations: that men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution. This new knowledge should have given us, by this time, a sense of kinship with fellow-creatures; a wish to live and let live; a sense of wonder over the magnitude and duration of the biotic enterprise.

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

I would love to do something with many artists, you know: Fantasia, Cardi B, Lil Wayne, J.Lo, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson. There's so many of them! All of them are iconic in their own way and to collaborate with any of those artists of that magnitude would be such an honor for me because I grew up listening to them and I love their music.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude of the supply shock. But what's probably more important is the probability of the supply shock translating into sustainable embedded inflation.

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Weber-Fechner Law holds that the just-noticeable difference in any variable is proportional to the magnitude of that variable.