Sentences with phrase «head of a pin»

The four, atmospheric relief prints on view were created by using the inked heads of pins to print each individual dot to create the whole image.

Add the Judas question to the list with «how many angels dance on the head of a pin» or the hilarious «can God create a boulder He can't lift».

They're far too busy with helping others, caring for others, providing food and comfort for others, and serving others to spend time worrying about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

I've been told, «I won't go there simply because it's like your telling me, «Let's suppose a billion angels could dance on the head of a pin, just hypothetically speaking.»

As long as we're already talking fiction, could you do your next article about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

I'm unconvinced that any of you know how many angels dance on the head of a pin and really, I don't care.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

The inmates are holding a debate, and the angels are watching from their perches on the heads of pins.

I would personally like to see pixies dancing on the head of pin, but that won't happen either.

And again, this whole discussion largely devolves into «how many angels are dancing on the head of a pin».

That was written in a time when it was true, before Christians argued over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, whether to use grape juiceor wine in the communion class, and whether women should wear doilies on their head when they pray, and a myriad of other stupid destructive timewasting ideologies designed to keep us running around with 1 foot nailed to the floor.

I'd prefer not to read your blather, Russ, since all of it is pretty much about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

On a side note, I love to laugh out loud at this issue when Xtians argue over how many angels dance on the head of a pin.

Every time there was some ridiculous little quibble over theology or doctrine (like how many angels could dance on the head of a pin), there'd be a schism, and 2 different groups would go their separate ways, each one convinced it had a lock on God's absolute truth and that their opponents with heathen heretic apostate sinners doomed (DOOMED, I tell you!)

It seems to me that evangelical tradition has often become a bondage to a sort of lip - service Scripture principle even while debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

People who waste time arguing about it are like arguing with those asserting angels dance on the head of a pin.

How about «how many angels fit on the head of a pin»?

even that debate about the angels on the head of a pin had some merit (though actually I think it was the point of a needle).

We may not sit around endlessly discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but we do spend our lives on religious and supposedly Biblical discussions and investigations of similar import.

The bickering, name calling, and argumentation on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin does not draw people to Christ.

They don't care how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Trying to figure out how many vibrating string parallel universes can dance on the head of a pin is brillinant physics

Remember how many angels can sit on the head of a pin.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's latest action regarding fuel discounts («Coles, Woolies fight ACCC over fuel discounts», AFR, February 25) is about as relevant as determining how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

I'm saddened that the First Flight people stopped making clubs a decade after I hit that great two - wood shot in 1973, for I'd surely be buying a set today, even though the old clubs» sweet spots were about as big as the head of a pin.

Throwing past «data» at one another trying to extrapolate some truth about the future is just arguing about the number of fairies on the head of a pin (since it's Easter, I'm feeling a little Catholic today).

But rather than wondering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, try to think about how many times Angels have made the cover (10 times for the L.A. / California / Anaheim Angels, two times for jockey Angel Cordero and another four for Elle Macpherson).

About the size of the head of a pin.

Secure the diaper with pins, with the head of the pin pointing out away from Baby.

Once the head of the pin shows through the fabric, slip it within the colored head and slide the locking top down to secure the pin in place.

The shadow education secretary then either needs to dance on the head of a pin or disown Burnham.

It's like angels on the head of a pin.

In a 1959 speech, physicist Richard Feynman wondered whether crafty researchers would one day find a way to write an encyclopedia on the head of a pin.

The cells are tiny — a few could fit on the head of a pin — so a single biodrone could carry several, enabling it to measure multiple atmospheric markers simultaneously.

The head of a pin is about a million nanometres wide.

One billion could fit on the head of a pin.

Each bundle of human brain cells is so tiny that it could fit on the head of a pin.

You can also ask your reader to picture how many times things would circle Earth when laid end to end, describe how many would fit on the head of a pin, talk about weight in terms of school buses, or impress everyone with the number needed to reach from the earth to the moon.

Sönnichsen's team of scientists have designed a sensor no larger than the head of a pin but capable of performing a hundred different individual tests on a surface that is only of one - tenth of a square millimeter in area.

This past year, mechanical engineer James Friend of Monash University in Australia crafted a robot motor just a quarter of a millimeter in diameter and 2 millimeters long, smaller than the head of a pin.

But the large size difference between the tip and the sample causes resolution difficulties — if we were to imagine that a single atom was the same size as a head of a pin, then the tip of the microscope would be as large as the Empire State Building.