Quotes About Ratio

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

Our brains are large for our body size, but that ratio is much greater in ants and shrews.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

Ex pede Herculem. "From his foot, [we can measure] Hercules", is a maxim of proportionality inspired by an experiment attributed to Pythagoras.

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

Let us begin with a simple line, Drawn as a child would draw it, To indicate the horizon, More real than the real horizon, Which is less than line, Which is visible abstraction, a ratio. The line ravishes the page with implications Of white earth, white sky!

typically a cup of brewed coffee is 1.3–1.5 per cent dissolved coffee and the rest is water. With espresso, the ratio may be closer to 8–12 per cent dissolved coffee.

One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio.

the perfect example of Robinson's law. This states that human idiocy multiplies in compound ratio to the number of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose.

a minority community would have 'weightage', i.e. a representation larger than what the population ratio warranted

The higher the surface area-to-volume ratio of a given amount of meat, the more efficiently it will freeze and the less damage it will suffer.

The earth is seven-tenths water, but the ratio of silence to voice is far greater. If libraries hold all the stories that have been told, there are ghost libraries of all the stories that have not. The ghosts outnumber the books by some unimaginably vast sum.

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.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

If the 80/20 principle says that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts,

There are more than four former Christians for every convert to Christianity •

To transform the unconscious into discourse is to bypass the dynamics, to become complicit with the whole of Western ratio, which kills art at the same time as the dream. One does not in the least break with metaphysics by placing language everywhere.

Whenever possible, at least 10 to 15 mL of blood should be withdrawn and inoculated into 2 or 3 bottles or tubes at a ratio of 1 mL of blood per 5 mL of medium.

A better goals-to-game ratio is the aim for me now. If you score goals, you will get people talking about you.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a "Mental Performance Ratio (MPR)

Look!" Galileo commanded. "You take the focal length of the objective—for this one, a hundred minims—and you divide that by the focal length of the eyepiece, in this case eleven minims—and you get a number which identifies the device's power of magnification, thus here about nine times! It's a ratio! It's geometry again—