“By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.”

“When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.”

“Everything we can measure seems small.”

“The grim shape
Towered up between me and the stars, and still,
For so it seemed, with purpose of its own
And measured motion like a living thing,
Strode after me.”

“I don’t get the little ship thing. You can’t show up at Mars in something the size of a rowboat. What if there are Martians? It would be so embarrassing.”

“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

“Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.”

“I can see now that it’s the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.”

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.”

“The earth is the sphere, the measure of all; round it describe a dodecahedron; the sphere including this will be Mars. Round Mars describe a tetrahedron; the sphere including this will be Jupiter. Describe a cube round Jupiter; the sphere including this will be Saturn. Now, inscribe in the earth an icosahedron, the sphere inscribed in it will be Venus: inscribe an octahedron in Venus: the circle inscribed in it will be Mercury.”