Magnitude Scale

Famous quotes containing the words magnitude and/or scale:

    Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
    Georg Büchner (1813–1837)