#magnitude

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

#greatest #lack #least #magnitude #reduces

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#aside #bounds #follows #god #limited

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#direction #into #magnitude #taken #which

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#estimation #magnitude #measure #method #provided

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#been #before #carried #completely #depressed

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#anonymity #bomb #going #growing #like

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. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#classed #continent #convey #every #face

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#account #being #certain #every #existence