Scale Quotes

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Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the… — Holmes Rolston III
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain… — Leon Foucault
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of… — Robert Kanigel
We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat… — George W. Bush
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of… — Charles Orville Whitley
If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary… — Jerry Fodor
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they… — William H. Calvin
The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is… — Hugh Miller
...what we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to… — Nicholas Stern
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars… — Nicholas Stern
The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine. — James Hansen
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on… — Sigourney Weaver
Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort… — Tom Ridge
It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method… — Albert Einstein

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