Quotes About Proportion

The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the animal body, the human skeleton, or the ages of growth in man.

Through myth, image and geometric proportion, Schwaller de Lubicz believed, the Egyptians were able to encapsulate in their writing and architecture the basic pattern structures of the natural universe.2

Reality is the harmony which gives to the component parts of a thing the equilibrium of the whole.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

I am a big believer in balance.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;

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You don't catch big fish with a small pole, nor do you catch small fish with a big hook."

How large is occasion noise relative to total system noise?

could have had a skiing accident during adolescence that left her slightly impaired, and so on. Recall that the correlation between two measures—in the present case reading age and GPA—is equal to the proportion of shared factors among their determinants. What is your best guess about that proportion? My most optimistic guess is about 30%.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

Where a relatively small proportion of those participating in a given activity create most of the value, it is all but mathematically impossible for them to be left better off by a coerced outcome that averages incomes.

It is not the amount of oxygen that determines flammability, but its proportion in the mixture with nitrogen.

dictum of Paracelsus, 'The poison is the dose',

Transcendence is a healthy dose of insignificance to a race whose root sin is pride. Transcendence cuts us all down to our proper proportion before an awesome God. That you and I are not significant is a wonderful, freeing discovery, and that's what church is for.

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. Conscience, the only remaining tie, is known to be inadequate in individuals: In large numbers, little is to be expected from it.