A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson 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
It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes… — Stephen F. Lynch 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
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes.… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I tilted my chin up a fraction. "You can't f-force me to stay here." I'd only agreed to come this far because… — Becca Fitzpatrick 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
What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity.… — David Koechner Copy Share Image
That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined… — Brian Greene 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
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're… — George Carlin 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
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
