Units Quotes

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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. — Havelock Ellis
Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other. — Gene Hackman
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which… — Charles Caleb Colton
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. — Evan Esar
Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. — Eleanor Roosevelt
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -… — Clay Shirky
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… — Werner Heisenberg
Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to… — Tim Field
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white… — Terry Pratchett
The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that… — Theodor Schwann
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an… — William Feindel
Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units.… — Merrill McPeak
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in… — Heber Doust Curtis
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such… — Oscar Hertwig
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has… — Noam Chomsky

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