Ada Lovelace
Mathematician, Writer
"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."
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Ali Smith
Author
"Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"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."
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"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."
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"[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer."
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"We live but a fraction of our lives."
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"We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity."
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"Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic."
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"I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth."
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"We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know."
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"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."
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