Metric System Quotes

“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
― Josh Bazell, Wild Thing

“You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?'

'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“The only measurement I understand is perfection.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Some people are so much heaven to the square inch that life is simply hell, when she leaves you in order to go south for the winter. (Yes, women are people too, sometimes even threee.)”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire,
And for to fight the Frenchman I did not much desire;
But I did bash their baggonets because they came arrayed
To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It was a harbinger of the metric system.”
― Imraan Coovadia, Tales of the Metric System

“If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.”
― Judith Stone, Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

“The term micro-hub didn't have much to do with the size of the drones. It was nomenclature Hail's crew used to refer to a drone's heritage. The main drone was Foghat, which dropped off the hub called Led Zeppelin or its mini-drone. The next group of hubs that were released by Led Zeppelin was referred to as micro-hubs. If those hubs parented more hubs, then those would be called nano-hubs and so on until pico has been used. Hail's drone laboratories had never nested drones deeper than pico, so there was no need for any further classification. The inventors of the metric system in 18th century France, had little need for any terminology smaller than micro, because they didn't have instruments fine enough to measure more minute increments. But in later years, pico, femto, atto, zepto and yocto metric increments had been established in case Hail's team ever needed them.”
― Brett Arquette, Operation Hail Storm

“America is inching towards the metric system”
― In US Engineering Circles