Quotes About Ratio

#1. The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Richard P. Feynman

#2. Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

Frederick Soddy

#3. What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

Chip Heath

#4. Recent gains in property prices suggest that Sydney's price-to-income ratio is closer to the 10x-income range. Unless

Lindsay David

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

Alberto Moravia

#6. A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.

Euclid

#7. [I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.

Paul Krugman

#8. Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Aldous Huxley

#9. It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

Lawrence Hargrave

#10. If you want the benefit of having an ox, you're going to have to endure the poo that comes with it. The goal is to have a positive poo to ox ratio.

Mark Gungor

#11. If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

Jim Rohn

#12. 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.

Jeff Baena

#13. 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 Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

William Odom

#14. 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 ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

Vera Rubin

#15. Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.

Stephen M. Barr

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

Thomas De Quincey

#17. 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.

Earl Nightingale

#18. Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Rob Sheffield

#20. The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

Henry Parry Liddon

#21. Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more organic image, which is more the way your eyes see.

James Gray

#22. Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

Frances O'Grady

#23. I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.

Mark Kirk

#24. No part of me believes this is actually happening, and I don't think it'll feel real until we're cruising down the interstate wondering what the ratio of fun to awkwardness will be this weekend.

Winter Renshaw

#25. Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

William Osler

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

Thomas Malthus

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

John Jay Chapman

#28. The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

Geena Davis

#29. 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.

Nat Friedman

#30. Things are always terrible
for some people. The question
is the ratio of the palpable hurt
to the general session
of life in an era.

Maureen N. McLane

#31. 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.

H.G.Wells

#32. Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. 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.

Henry Ward Beecher

#34. He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.

William Blake

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

Earl Nightingale

#36. I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#37. Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio ... each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction ... The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.

Charles Darwin

#38. Values of TG/HDL-C over 3.5 indicate that you probably have pattern B with a predominance of small LDL particles, and a ratio this high indicates there's a good chance you may also have insulin resistance[55].

Jeff S. Volek

#39. Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

George Will

#40. The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason in the early years was that land values bulked less in the wide open spaces of North America. There was, of course, much more land, but it was very cheap.

Robert Solow

#41. After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

Joseph Mazur

#42. I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

Noel Clarke

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

Raymond Rubicam

#44. A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense ...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#45. Dirac found that the ratio of the electric force to the gravitational force of an electron-proton pair is roughly equal to the ratio of the age of the universe to the time it takes light to traverse an atom.

Michael Flynn

#46. The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef.

Michael Pollan

#47. The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay increased from seventy in 1990 to three hundred in 2005.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#48. The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

Thomas Malthus

#49. Those who shoot in competition seem to have a remarkably high hit potential and survival ratio in actual gunfights.

Massad Ayoob

#50. When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

Ken Burns

#51. 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 they were not.

Thomas J. Sargent

#52. Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

Martin L. Gross

#53. I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.

Jared Harris

#54. By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

Jonah Lehrer

#55. The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#56. If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.

Jennifer Shahade

#57. The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.

Joel Fuhrman

#58. (There is a saying among women scientists who attend highly specialized engineering universities, where the girl-to-guy ratio is decidedly in their favor: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd.")

Michio Kaku

#59. Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals, 123 but for Hal's synoptic purposes here it's enough to say that megatonnage is distributed among Combatants according to an integrally regressed ratio of (a)

David Foster Wallace

#60. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

#61. 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 in the ratio of small whole numbers.

Humphry Davy

#62. the ratio of time spent reading vs. writing is well over 10:1.

Robert C. Martin

#63. I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

Daniel Tammet

#64. The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution.

Robert Lawlor

#65. I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Edgar Allan Poe

#66. Peabody may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another relative ass-to-ears ratio.

Jim Butcher

#67. The two solutions of the equation for the Golden Ratio are:

x1 = (1+ Sqr5) / 2

x2 = (1 - Sqr5) / 2

Mario Livio

#68. In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

#69. In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

Tim Harford

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

Edgar Allan Poe

#71. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

H.G.Wells

#72. A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.

Clive Granger

#73. In the mid-1980s, the ratio of debt to personal disposable income for American households was 65 percent. During the next two decades, U.S. household leverage more than doubled, reaching an all-time high of 133 percent in 2007.

Katherine Porter

#74. About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.

Rick Carlisle

#75. If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.

Howard Pyle

#76. 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.

Pieter Zeeman

#77. 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 back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#78. Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.]

Horace

#79. At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

John L. Casti

#80. Any increase in the relative size of government in the economy, therefore, shifts the societal consumption-investment ratio in favor of consumption, and prolongs the depression.

Murray N. Rothbard

#81. The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Aldous Huxley

#82. For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Ken Blanchard

#83. Your trustworthiness quotient depends on your transparency ratio.

Shubha Vilas

#84. 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 ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.

Lynda Resnick

#85. Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight ratio. It does depend on the raw power.

Lynn Hill

#86. In i86o the income of the nation's churches and religious voluntary societies came quite close to matching the total receipts of the federal government. Today the ratio of annual federal income to annual religion-related giving is about twenty-five to one.

Mark A. Noll

#87. I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

Banana Yoshimoto

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

Garry Trudeau

#89. Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

Benjamin Graham

#90. It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

Richard Parks Bland

#91. Nowadays he is best remembered for the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 . . .), in which each successive number is the sum of the previous two, and the ratio between a number and its immediate antecedent tends towards a 'golden mean' (around 1.618). It

Niall Ferguson

#92. Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.

Fulton J. Sheen

#93. Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.

Swami Vivekananda

#94. When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

Ken Livingstone

#95. A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.

Ilana Mercer

#96. The Ark of the Covenant is a Golden Rectangle because its rectangular shape is in the proportions of the Golden Ratio.

Donald Frazer

#97. It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

Lev Grossman

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

Tacitus

#99. And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

Dave Eggers

#100. Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Thomas Carlyle