Metric System Quotes

• Así pues, el sistema métrico decimal no se impuso realmente en Estados Unidos, a menos que se cuente la creciente popularidad de la bala de nueve milímetros.

  Dave Barry

  Divertido, Humor, Ciencia

  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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• En los cielos descubrimos [las estrellas] por su luz, y sólo por su luz... la única prueba de la existencia de estos mundos distantes... que cada uno de ellos está formado por moléculas de los mismos tipos que encontramos en la Tierra. Una molécula de hidrógeno, por ejemplo, ya sea en Sirio o en Arcturus, ejecuta sus vibraciones exactamente al mismo tiempo. Así pues, cada molécula del universo lleva impreso el sello de un sistema métrico tan claramente como el metro de los Archivos de París o el codo real del Templo de Karnac.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Estrellas, Ciencia, Luz

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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). "La era de los extremos: el breve siglo XX, 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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• Dios inventó al hombre, y el hombre inventó el sistema métrico decimal.

  Salvador Dalí

  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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