Metric System Quotes

• Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.48, Crown Archetype

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

  Jesse Helms

  Jesus, Use, Metrics

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• In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds ... that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the royal cubit of the Temple of Karnac.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Stars, Science, Light

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• There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

  Jim Butcher

  Skulls, Evil, Boss

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.117, Penguin

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• The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Metrics, Revolution, Lasting

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  War, Metrics, Reason Why

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• 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.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Beer, Metrics, Embrace

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Running, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

  Salvador Dali

  Men, Metrics, Invention

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• Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Metrics, Meter

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• Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Drug, Generations

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• I'm not familiar with the metric system.

  Patton Oswalt

  Metrics, Familiar

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• If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

  Judith Stone

  Use, Metrics, Toes

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• The weightlifting competition I saw was the women's 63 kg class. I'm not sure whether this means the actual women weighed 63 kg or the weights they lifted weighed 63 kg. Or possibly the temperature in the weightlifting hall was 63 kg. There's no way to know for sure without finding out what a "kg" is, and my belief, as an American, is that if I have to start understanding the metric system, then the terrorists have won.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Mean, Class

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