quotes about Fractions
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
-- Frederick Salomon Perls -
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
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Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
-- Ian HackingSource : Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.132, Cambridge University Press
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If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.
-- John YudkinSource : John Yudkin (1972). “Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers”
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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 the cosmos and of science.
-- Julian BagginiSource : "Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.
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A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
-- Lyn HejinianSource : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.70, Wesleyan University Press
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And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
-- Mario Puzo -
When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!
-- Mark Lowry -
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay
-- Milton Friedman -
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We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.
-- Mohnish Pabrai -
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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 very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.
-- Robert Reich -
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 McKennaSource : "Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature". Book by Terence McKenna, 1987.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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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