Quotes about Scale
My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.
— Jim Bakker
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?
— Victor Hugo
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
— Victor Hugo
The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal
— Carl Sagan
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
— Paul Ricoeur
Since the mind occupies so high a place in the scale of our beings, and since it is the most active of our inward faculties, ever working, then what a fearful state for the soul to be blind! John Flavel said it is "like a fiery, high-mettled horse whose eyes cannot see, furiously carrying his rider upon rocks, pits and dangerous precipices.
— AW Pink
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
— Carl Sagan
Geological time is not money.
— Mark Twain
It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!
— Mike Huckabee
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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.
— Bill Gates