16 Funny Metric System Quotes To Make You Love Maths

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The metric system is a widely used system of measurement around the world. Many people have shared their thoughts and opinions about the metric system through quotes. These quotes reflect the simplicity and practicality of the metric system, highlighting its ease of use and importance in scientific and everyday life. Quotes about the metric system emphasize its universal appeal and the need for its widespread adoption.

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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles. — Jesse Helms

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system — Eric Hobsbawm

Metric system quote The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

God invented man, and man invented the metric system. — Salvador Dali

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

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes. — Judith Stone

Metric system quote Our entire biological system, the brain and the earth itself
Our entire biological system, the brain and the earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

I'm not familiar with the metric system. — Patton Oswalt

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

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

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

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

The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems. — Jerry Fodor

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete. — Tom Freston

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance. — Adrian Davis

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. — Jim Butcher

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system — P. J. O'Rourke

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