Quotes About Magnitude

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

large twelve hundred square foot space

It's too much energy for this little teeny body. Because the galaxy is smaller than the energy you are. This planet Earth is smaller than the energy you are. This body is smaller than the energy you are.

Ther's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude. (after his client signed an 80 million contract with Virgin Records)

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.

Universul este o p?dure uria??, în care raÈ›iunea noastr? nu reprezint? decât un centimetru, în lungime, l??ime È™i în?lÈ›ime.

The fair alone consumed three times as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

One of the challenges of my job is relaying the magnitude of information coming through in a reading, and when I'm overwhelmed in processing a feeling because of how intense it is, my brain resorts to calling it 'immense' for some reason.

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

When you compare the first three crashes of the 21st century to the giant crash of 1929, you gain a perspective of how truly "giant" the first three crashes of this century were.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

To use the system to take out an entire building, let alone a city, you'd have to widen the beam a hundred- or a thousand

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

His tastes were essentially for what had magnitude and a suggestion of myth: the heroic and the romantic never failed to excite his imagination

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.