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Quotes About Magnitude

Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.
~ Richard Powers
The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival
~ Richard Powers
zoomable from a hundred miles per yard clown to about ten.
~ Richard Powers
At one in a million, there are roughly ten million of them in the Milky Way alone.
~ Richard Powers
In each mere gram of uranium there are about 2.5 × 1021 atoms, an absurdly large number, 25 followed by twenty zeros: 2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.
~ Richard Rhodes
Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.
~ Richard Rohr
Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.
~ Claudio Arrau
More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.
~ David Bentley
Universe is a giant with his body and we humans are a giant with our minds!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
the great is beyond ten feet square, the small enters the tiniest atom.
~ William Scott Wilson
We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.
~ William Stafford
The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
is no great with Thee, there is no small,      For Thou art all, and fillest all in all.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Era un fragmento diminuto del universo, pero también era exactamente del tamaño del universo
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The rollers that raced shoreward were perhaps 40 feet high, maybe more.
~ Alfred Lansing
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
~ Emil Cioran
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent.
~ Jan Chipchase
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
~ Thomas Paine
There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.
~ Richard Panek
From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.
~ Richard Siken
Some rules are bigger than the universe.
~ Richelle Mead
They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!
~ Roald Dahl