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“The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.”

Hard Space Moon Human Mars Humanity And Society Space Exploration Magnitude Nasa Space Travel Spaceships Space Program Moon Landing Spaceship Moons Successfully Space And Cosmos

Author:Steven Magee

“Although the magnitude of my pain would scream otherwise, I cannot be so remiss as not to realize that my wounds are the precious salve that heals the wounds of others.”

Pain Suffering Wounds Heal Scream Magnitude Salve

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.”

God Vision Destiny Impossible Dreams Calling Sight Blind Mission Blindness Possibilities Magnitude Visionary Vision Casting Sightless

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A modern man, I do not make undue connections though my heart wrenches daily against the unknowable, almighty throb and heave of the universe against my skin that sings a song for which we haven't quite found the words.”

Poetry Universe Poem Connections Magnitude Unknowable

Author:Jim Harrison

“High winds, downed power lines, and man-made environmental energy systems will have all contributed to the magnitude of the Maui wildfires.”

Magnitude Maui Wildfires Lahaina Maui Island Man Made High Winds Contributed Downed Power Lines Environmental Energy Systems

Author:Steven Magee

“Time should reveal the truth about the magnitude of the dead and missing in the Florida hurricane Ian disaster.”

Truth Time Missing Disaster Dead Florida Magnitude Reveal Hurricane Ian Cyclone

Author:Steven Magee

“For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.”

Order Difficult Water Study Effects Pure Sugar Magnitude Thorough Inversions Pure Water Sugar Cane

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”

Way Two Three Lines Logic Certainty One Way Uncertainty Planes Reasoning Two Ways Magnitude Ontology Three Ways

Author:Aristotle

“The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.”

World Mind Firsts Form Order Three Numbers Type Logic Thirds Absolutes Infinite Independent Arise Certainty Mathematical Uncertainty Reasoning Magnitude Ontology Finite Number

Author:Georg Cantor

“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”

“We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.”

Long Brain Five Greater Six Logic Infinite Depth Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Dimensions Broads Inches Geometry Magnitude Ontology

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.”

Mind Ideas Faces Order Islands Australia Continents Globes Magnitude

Book:Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales

Source: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales

“Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has acquired a physical identity, do not hesitate any longer to draw pictures and to set forth, for all to see, him who has chosen to let himself be seen.”

Seeing Identity Draws Size Invisible Chosen Visible Quantity Magnitude

Author:John of Damascus

“I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.”

People World Passion Missing Lovers Storytelling Plenty Dimensions Sci Fi Scope Other Worlds Magnitude

Author:Paul McGann

“According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.”

Wells Running Moving Law Force Known Fields Determined Well Known Magnitude Magnetic Moving In Electrons Magnetic Fields Magnetic Force

Author:Pieter Zeeman

“Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.”

Justice Moral Issues Rights Kings Threat Civil Rights Jail Luther Magnitude Moral Issues

Author:James Hansen

“The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.”

Direct Method Sensations Magnitude Estimation

Author:Stanley Smith Stevens

“Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.”

Has Beens Use Newspapers Scales Confusion Complaints Confusing Magnitude

Author:Charles Francis Richter

“A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.”

Ends Whole Action Certain Middle Tragedy Representation Magnitude

Book:Aristotle: the Poetics:

Source: Aristotle: the Poetics:

“Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.”

“I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.”

Wells Certain Levels Known Well Known Magnitude

Author:Kid Cudi

“We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor”

Giving Self Form Growth Interest Crime Favors Distinction Deceit Shocked Wickedness Magnitude Artifice

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

“In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.”

Able Mother Creativity Stage Creator Producers Productive Magnitude Skip Gestation Loafing

Book:Teacher in America

Source: Teacher in America

“The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly.”

People Suffering Left Poverty Amount Fortune Accumulation Magnitude Emergence Left Out Depravity

Author:Che Guevara

“One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.”

Firsts May Said Given Limits Approach Mathematics Exceed Magnitude

Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.”

Knows Men Should Doe Courses Church Sin Tasks Forgiving Gods Will Great Things Unconditional Magnitude Rigor

Book:God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

“The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.”

Light Action Science Theory Absolutes Core Significance Relative Quantum Relativity Magnitude Velocity Quantum Theory Theories Of Relativity

Book:Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers

Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers

“To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.”

Thinking Years Five Seven Eight Five Years Magnitude

Author:Steve Jobs

“People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.”

People Knows Women Mad Magnitude

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.”

Mind Ability Class Struggle Horizon Educate Magnitude

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.”

World Needs Humans Facts Dream Values Human Beings Imagine Creation Civilization Worthy Magnitude Human Values Awesome Things

Author:Vanna Bonta

“The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.”

“All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.”

Doe Two Simple Relation Infinite Appearance Boundaries Magnitude

Book:Notes and Fragments

Source: Notes and Fragments

“Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.”

Writing Bigs Film Song Wish Easy Can Do Cutting Hair Directors Comparison Overwhelming You Can Do It Scope Magnitude Writing Songs Film Directors Bagels Hair Cut

Author:Tom Waits

“In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.”

World Fall Community Events Seasons Farms Diverse Polish Magnitude Moscow Reverberation

Book:Poland: A Novel

Source: Poland: A Novel

“With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.”

Needs Ideas Problem Faces Political Challenges Right Now Good Ideas Problem Solving Tactics Magnitude Challenges We Face

Author:Barack Obama

“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.”

Shows Order Differences Effort Study Produce Approach Structure Average Faster Designer Magnitude

Author:Fred Brooks

“One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.”

Firsts Difficult Steps Arguing Magnitude

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.”

World Mean Children Culture Natural Possibility Members Suicide Nuclear Destructive Assault Indigenous Natural World Unprecedented Magnitude Other Cultures Ferocity

Book:Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros

Source: Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous interrelated activities. Differences may exist in the goals to be achieved, the particular processes involved, and the magnitude of effort. Nevertheless, it is possible to abstract the underlying essential similarities in the management of these seemingly disparate systems.”

Source: Linear Programming and Extensions

“Some areas near Dallas experienced a 3.5-magnitude earthquake, which some blame on fracking. However, scientists say that it was more likely aftershocks from Chris Christie celebrating at the Cowboys game.”

Games Areas Scientist Blame Celebrate Cowboy Earthquakes Magnitude Dallas Christie Fracking Aftershock

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to question; it was impious to examine; it was impious to discriminate. On the other hand, it was visibly instinct with the supernatural. Miracles of every order and degree of magnitude were flashing forth incessantly from all its parts.”

Humans Reason Hands Order Christianity Atheism Degrees Miracle Instinct Positive Atheism Range Scope Magnitude Incessantly Human Reason

Book:History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

“I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more”

Damage Calamity Magnitude Tsunami

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Working with great actors - being part of something of that magnitude and not knowing the business and what the business entailed or any of that. I was so wet behind the ears, I didn't know anything. It's, like, you're watching movies, and then here you are in front of those people and working with them. It was pretty interesting.”

People Knows Actors Interesting Behinds Knowing Fronts Like You Ears Wet Not Knowing Magnitude Great Actors

Author:Mekhi Phifer

“There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.”

Evil Vices Magnitude

Author:Delarivier Manley

“There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.”

May Important Done Problem Economic Fields Serious Harm Instance Employment Superstitions Inflation Magnitude

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.”

Belief Religious Century Institutions Impulse Void Magnitude Religious Belief Fling

Book:Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case

Source: Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case

“Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.”

World Universe Belief Sides Objects Habit Argument Errors Atheist Contemporary Related Agency Encounters Magnitude Duration Belief In God Craftsman Artifacts Conceiving

Author:David Bentley Hart

“Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.”

Giving Littles Has Beens Sometimes Animal Safety Folds Crushed Magnitude Subtlety Formidable Insignificance Antagonist

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.”

Feels Firsts Bigs Would Be Politics Records Republican Highest Tools Sincerity Tricky Magnitude Big Business Opportunism Richard'm Nixon

Author:Marguerite Rawalt