“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 only great thing is fear! ("The Jelly-Fish")” ScienceFearDistanceSizeRelativityScale Book:American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
“The art of scaling: The art of scaling is subtraction, not addition. The art of scaling is alignment through amplified purpose. The art of scaling is when your idea works even when you’re not there to push it. The art of scaling removes everything slowing you down.” LeadershipStrategyEntrepreneurshipCoachingTime ManagementScaleScalingScience Of ScalingArt Of Scaling Author:Richie Norton
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.” ScienceBeliefAbsurdity20th CenturyMacroScaleAnthropocentrismMicro Book:Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d’Angelo, captain and owner of the ‘tramp’ freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best.” WonderfulBestDayAndOfHeThisAgainScaleAsOwnerPegasusAlarmSeatSighedD Angelo Book:Blachart Source: Blachart