Fractions Quotes

204 Fractions quotes by 180 unique authors

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
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them,… — Thomas Sowell
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain).… — Joseph Sobran
When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death… — Frederick Lenz
If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a… — Robert Reich
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count. — Robert A. Heinlein
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know… — Thomas Carlyle
Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band. — Dave Matthews
Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in… — James Lovelock
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! — Paul Gauguin
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon,… — Gail Collins
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. — Charles Dickens
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. — David Hockney
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay… — Lawrence M. Krauss
This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction. — Danica McKellar
A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number,… — Danica McKellar

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