Diameter Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think… — James Jeans
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with… — Immanuel Kant
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has… — Augustus De Morgan
As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the… — Deke Slayton
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. . .… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternityâ€” not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the… — Richard Preston
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun. — Henry Ward Beecher
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,… — Heinrich Heine
Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene. I… — Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of… — Arthur Eddington
Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate… — George Ellery Hale
He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities. — Louis Farrakhan
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and… — Charles Darwin
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths… — Richard Dawkins
You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early… — Albert Claude
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards… — William Golding
She's Prim's size in diameter. — Suzanne Collins

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