measurement units Quotes

Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Inches make a champion.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

I lost all respect for angstroms.

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.