Ratios Quotes

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I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I

The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating empty calories.

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 most software.

A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.