Weight Quotes - Page 7
1668 L' Avare, act 3, sc.1.
George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.250
It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, David M. Knight (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry”, p.94, Taylor & Francis
William Shakespeare (2000). “Measure for Measure”, p.42, Penguin
sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.
Tammara Webber (2012). “Easy”, p.144, Penguin UK
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
"Theeorie analytique des probabilites". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1812.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2004). “The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance”, p.244, Broadview Press
The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated