“Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
William James
“The old record was 44 degrees, so we beat it by a degree.”
Tony Cristaldi
“When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.”
Charles Bullock
“If this equation were found to be even slightly incorrect, the impact would be enormous - given the degree to which [it] is woven into the theoretical basis of modern physics and everyday applications. This doesn't mean [the relation] has been proven to be completely correct. Future physicists will undoubtedly subject it to even more precise tests because accurate checks imply that our theory of the world is in fact more and more complete.”
David Pritchard