Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered. — Mary E. Pearson 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
Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast… — Thomas Carlyle 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
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could… — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft… — Kenneth P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT… — Robert Sutton Harrington Copy Share Image
With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again...… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths… — Ted Gup 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
But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with… — Pete Gill 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
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend 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
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
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image