“A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.”

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction.

No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.

Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

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.

Eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent,

I have never in my life been more eager to welcome change. Surviving a transition of this magnitude feels powerful.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn’t keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.