(15 quotes found)
“Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“The 3/8-inch diameter rods of paint color in my view are used as material to build geometric, abstract, colored relief sculpture. The fact that paint is used is incidental.”
Bob Mataranglo
“We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.”
Steve Squyres
“It would have taken only a second or two for a meteor that's 20 kilometers in diameter to pass through the ocean and impact the rock beneath.”
Donald Lowe
“Each cable is about 3-feet in diameter, and within the cables are thin strings of wire that actually make up the cable themselves.”
Ernesto Butcher
“I had to find a new twist. I wanted a balloon 60 inches in diameter, which is my height, made of a translucent or transparent material.”
Sally Rand
“Anything below 30 meters [100 feet in diameter] wouldn't cause any damage.”
Don Yeomans
“The Alvin has a very small window to look out of, about four inches in diameter. You get a very narrow view of what's down there.”
Joe Jones
“The strobe object was reported to be about 30-50 feet in diameter.”
Peter Geremia
“It looks exactly like an underwater bombing range, ... There are craters anywhere from 20 feet to 40 feet in diameter and 5 to 15 feet deep.”
John Gifford
