Fraction Quotes

212 quotes by 187 authors

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that… — Virginia Woolf
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull… — Steve Albini
Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out… — Anne Tyler
Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you… — Andy Weir
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in… — Milton Friedman
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in… — Murray Kempton
If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more… — Max Levchin
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter… — Bernard M. Oliver
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy,… — Burton Richter
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved… — George Gaylord Simpson
A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks… — Howard Staunton
All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the… — Frederick Lenz
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a… — Regina Spektor
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. — Vernor Vinge
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because… — Robert A. Heinlein
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases,… — Adolf Hitler
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… — Julian Baggini

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