size quotes

   We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable wayaccording as they are being paid in or paid out.

- SirJulian Sorell Huxley
  Essays of a Biologist, ch.5.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

-Walter Savage Landor
  Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, 'Southey and Porson'.

With each generation the entire race passes through the body of its womanhood as through a mould, reappearing withtheindeliblemarks ofthat mould upon it, that as the os cervix of woman, through which the head of the human infant passes at birth, forms a ring, determining for ever the size at birth of the human head†so exactly the intellectual capacity, the physical vigour, the emotional depth of woman, forms also an untranscendable circle, circumscribing with each successive generation the limits of expansion of the human race. 720

-Iron
Women and Labour, ch.3.

Ihaveno doubtthat it ispossibletogiveanewdirectionto technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.

- E(rnst) F(riedrich) Schumacher
  Small Is Beautiful.