Tiny Fraction Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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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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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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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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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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The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites,…
— Paul Feyerabend
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The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.…
— Thomas Sowell
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There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but…
— David M. Raup
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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially…
— Lawrence Lessig
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I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination. Women of…
— Prabal Gurung
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A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing…
— Vaclav Smil
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...
— Terence McKenna
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The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give…
— Richard Dawkins
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Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization…
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
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Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and…
— Richard Posner
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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
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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
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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
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...[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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Tiny Fraction Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Tiny Fraction Quotes as follows: