Quotes About Magnitude

I will never forget being in Akron the day the I Promise School opened its doors for the very first time. You could just feel the magnitude of that moment.

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

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In perspective it was tremendous

I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the

the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the end of 2004 to its lowest level since the late 1950s.

Sou do tamanho do que vejo!

Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

she knew, the sky was speckled with stars. How could anyone number them one by one, as the psalm said? There were too many. The sky was too big.

What he brought to the concept was unprecedented scale and scope.

Reporters struggled to convey the magnitude of this fine.

Small things only seem smaller in large spaces.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is.

The nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

Either the world is so tiny or we are so enormous, in any case we fill it completely.

We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!

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The saints are the explorers in the kingdom of God, the discoverers of His magnitude and power. Thus they blaze a trail which others can tread and they create a way of life which others, who could not have created it for themselves, can also adopt. A saint who is spiritually linked to us may truly become a guide and teacher; such a relationship is, or at least can be, completely mutual.