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«MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life- fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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astronomer, astronomers, atom, bulk, bulked, component, components, contemplating, corpuscle, diameter, diameters, ether, floating, impressive, increased, ion, ions, microscopist, one thousand, purely, relative, spaces, The Wee, to the contrary, unthinkable, wee
«A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.»
«You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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daughters, diameter, diameters, planets, The Planets
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