Ratio Quotes

117 Ratio quotes by 109 unique authors

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
Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio… — John M. Gottman
There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it — Denis Waitley
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve… — Warren Buffett
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are… — Nicholas Ray
The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used. — Raymond Rubicam
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint. — Alan Cohen
In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in… — William Eldridge Odom
Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1. — Trevor Hoffman
Never marry something until you've established the perfect pizza ratio...The premise is simple. My husband and I knew we were made for each other because… — Celia Rivenbark
Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio... — David Mamet

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