Proportional Quotes

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. (Jerry Pournelle)
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. View quote
Gregory Benford
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. View quote
Douglas Engelbart
[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties. View quote
David Lloyd George
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. View quote
David Allen (author)
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. View quote
Michael Korda
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior. View quote
Alfie Kohn
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer. View quote
George Gamow
The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible. (Stanisław Lem)
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes. View quote
Archimedes
If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other. View quote
Johannes Kepler
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed. View quote
Isaac Newton
The utility of a thought experiment is inversely proportional to the size of its departures from reality. View quote
Daniel Dennett
There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause. View quote
Cass Sunstein
I wish that people would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved (by large studies); the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion. View quote
Alfred Binet
Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional. View quote
Liz Vassey
Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world. View quote
Peter Welch
Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner. (Roger Mahony)
Chaotic theory is mathematically based on non-linear propositions, "meaning that they expressed relationships that were not strictly proportional. Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph" View quote
James Gleick
The development of Indian trigonometry, based on sine as against chord of the Greeks, a necessity for astronomical calculations with his own concise notation which expresses the full sine table in just one couplet for easy remembrance. One of the two methods suggested by him for the sine table is based on the property that the second order sine differences were proportional to sines themselves. View quote
Aryabhata
A proportional condensation of the nebulous matter in the brighter places will sufficiently account for their different degree of shining. View quote
William Herschel
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. View quote
Oriana Fallaci