Quotes About Comparison

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

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.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.