Fractions famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
-- Frederick Salomon Perls -
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
-- Ian Hacking -
If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.
-- John Yudkin -
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
-- Julian Baggini -
A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
-- Lyn Hejinian -
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
-- Mario Puzo -
When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!
-- Mark Lowry -
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay
-- Milton Friedman -
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.
-- Mohnish Pabrai -
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.
-- Robert Reich -
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...
-- Terence McKenna -
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
-- Vernor Vinge -
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
-- Yevgeny Zamyatin
