Quotes About Comparison

To picture a pulsar, imagine the mass of the Sun packed into a ball the size of Manhattan. If that's hard to do, then maybe it's easier if you imagine stuffing about a billion elephants into a Chapstick casing.

Even if you're bad at math, you're probably much better at it than the smartest chimpanzee, whose genetic identity varies in only trifling ways from ours.

Earth's Moon is about 1/400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/400th as far from us, making the Sun and the Moon the same size in the sky—a coincidence not shared by any other planet–moon combination in the solar system

When you explore the same basic information—the same data—from many different perspectives, especially when you compare one risk that you accept to another that you reject, the relevant details shine brightly while the irrelevant details melt away. These are the beginnings of an enlightened, scientifically literate perspective.

The Olympics owes its existence to the search for people who perform faster, higher, and stronger among us. Standardized exams, game shows, beauty contests, talent auditions, and the Forbes 400 all pit humans against humans, in rank order. Society offers hundreds, if not thousands of ways to show you're better than others.

A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.

He looked like a big baby goose with acne. This

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we

But when you know who you are in Christ, you no longer need to be threatened by people or compete with them, because you are already secure and loved.

me as though I might need another analogy, which I didn't

but every time I run into her in New York, she has a new guy, making me think she's had more fresh mounts than a Pony Express rider.

the FBI philosophy is, 'Whatever makes any other law enforcement agency or institution look bad makes us look better.

You know what an idealist is? That's a man who notices that a rose smells better than a cabbage, so he thinks the rose will make a better soup.

I had travelled the world and I had come to realise, in faint surprise, that I had seen no countryside that could compare in pastoral beauty with that of my own home. It takes a long time for an Australian to accept the fact that the wide, bustling, sophisticated world of the northern hemisphere cannot compare with his own land in certain ways;

If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality.

bear in mind when trying to compare housing with other forms of capital asset. The first is depreciation. Stocks do not wear out and require new roofs; houses do. The second is liquidity. As assets, houses are a great deal more expensive to convert into cash than stocks. The third is volatility.

Africa is in fact a more Christian continent than Europe. There are now, for example, more Anglicans in Nigeria than in England.

The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly with a comparable convergence in religiosity. Europeans not only work less; they also pray less – and believe less.

Pure monetary theory, however, cannot explain why in one country the inflationary process proceeds so much further or faster than in another.

Las tasas de desempleo en la mayoría de los países europeos son también marcadamente más altas que las de Estados Unidos, más del 10 por ciento en Bélgica y España, más de dos veces la tasa de Estados Unidos.Y por

by the second decade of the twentieth century the gap in living standards between London and Beijing was around six to one, compared with two to one in the eighteenth century.36

By August, the pandemic of 2020 seemed more likely to end up closer to the 1957–58 Asian flu in terms of excess mortality. (As we saw in chapter 7, the Asian flu killed up to 115,700 Americans, the equivalent of 215,000 in 2020, and between 700,000 and 1.5 million people worldwide, equivalent to 2 to 4 million dead today.) That meant that in August 2020, COVID-19 was still capable of killing many more people.

They know it doesn't matter if they are fast, only if they are faster.

He said that it always struck him with surprise that while men in buying an earthen or glass vase would sound it first to learn if it were good, yet in choosing a wife they were content with only looking at her.