Universal Rarity Scale

Famous quotes containing the words universal, rarity and/or scale:

    The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
    Isidore Ducasse, Comte de LautrĂ©amont (1846–1870)

    Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    Another armored animal—scale
    lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they
    form the uninterrupted central
    tail-row!
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)