Quotes for All
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. Evan Davis
I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours’ lives hell! Eva Green
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. Eugene V. Debs
On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don’t use your scale. Eugene Mirman
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. Ethel Merman
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn’t find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time. Etgar Keret
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known … Read more
in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed. Ernst Haas
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and … Read more
Industrial Society is not merely one containing ‘industry,’ large-scale productive units capable of supplying man’s material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of … Read more