Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me. — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image