Proportionality Quotes

• If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Unfair, Fairs

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• Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Character, Numbers, Rejection

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Dec 16, 2014

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• It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.

  Roger Penrose

  Reality, Giving, Doe

  "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics". Book by Roger Penrose (p. 269.), 1989.

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Swimming, Impact

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Justice, Principles, Different

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 20 : Taxation and Redistribution, 1960.

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• The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.

  Iamblichus

  Numbers, Perfection, Special

  "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield in "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

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• The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a dog's ass.

  Dylan Ratigan

  Dog, America, Unemployment

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• If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.

  Peter Adamson

  Thinking, Unity, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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