Scale Quotes

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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By seeing life's experiences through to the end, on our small scale, we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is finished."… — Neal A. Maxwell
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality… — John Burroughs
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first… — Donald Knuth
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise,… — H.G. Wells
Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on… — Unknown Author
...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is work… — Yvon Chouinard
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. — Oliver Heaviside
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are… — Stephen Hawking
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. — Jeannette Rankin
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects.… — Adam Riess
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental… — Yuan T. Lee
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale — Unknown Author
In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can… — C. Lloyd Morgan
After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery… — Unknown Author
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was… — Henry Bessemer

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