Quotes about Scale

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

The only underprivileged citizens who should favor monogamy are men. It is what gives them access to a supply of women that would otherwise drift up the social scale.

But can you measure someone's love? I want to know. You think you can measure love? She's kind not to laugh at me...No scale would be strong enough, she tells me. It would break to pieces under the weight.

Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.