quotes about Metric System

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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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

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