Ratio Quotes

117 quotes by 109 authors

India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb.… — Narendra Modi
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen… — Wilfred Trotter
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first… — Johannes Kepler
Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of… — Charles Darwin
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of… — Thomas Malthus
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. — William Blake
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism,… — Oliver Goldsmith
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is… — Horace Mann
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are… — Humphry Davy
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams,… — Adam Parfrey
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency… — Henry Charles Carey
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course… — Thomas J. Sargent
I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life… — Yuri Milner
The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial… — Lynda Resnick
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our… — Vera Rubin
In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave… — Rush Limbaugh
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. — Bob Allen
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with… — Nat Friedman

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