Fractions Quotes
204 quotes by 181 authors
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize,…
— Andre Breton
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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera…
— Karl Landsteiner
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Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are…
— Desmond Tutu
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that…
— E. O. Wilson
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed…
— Bob Brown
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The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
— Robert Breault
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Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no longer applies-you will…
— Dan Millman
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It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the…
— Michio Kaku
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I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than hoping people like…
— Michael Shannon
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Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10…
— George Carlin
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With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons.…
— Fritz Zwicky
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I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they…
— Jeff Bezos
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Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny…
— D. James Kennedy
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Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,…
— Robert Sutton Harrington
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Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had…
— Richard Dawkins
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We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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