Measurer Quotes

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything. (Maya Angelou)
Copernicus and Darwin undermined man's image of himself as the ‘measure of all things'. Newton provided him with a new hope ... that of ‘man as the measurer of all things'. Thus the possibility was revealed to man, who had been disinherited from being at the center of the universe, that he might be able know how to work himself back there. Science, at the same time it destroyed his ontological security, gave him the tools for reapproaching Eden. View quote
John Carroll