That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a...

…I gotta burn these scales… sigh*

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science

My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song.

So that was where we were in our relationship.Derwent’s scale ran all the way from wouldn’t piss-on-you-if-you-were-on-fire to would-kill-for-you-no-need-to-ask-twice. I was quite glad to be somewhere near the middle.

Get Off The Scale! You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Incidentally, the world is magical.Magic is simply what’s off our human scale… at the moment.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were...

IMBALANCEDo not let one negative carry the same weight as ninety nine positivesKamil Ali

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next....

Your purpose…should always be to know…the whole that was intended to be known.

I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the...

Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book. It is these optimized solutions that make up and drive the non-abstract parts...

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.