#fraction

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#began #discovery #ever #following #fractional

Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had enough and will stuff themselves to death with those innocuous little beige flakes imaginatively labeled 'fish food. ↗

— Steve Toltz

#fish-food #glutons #humor #death

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#fraction #hardly #life #little #little time

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#fraction #i #realized #second #sportsmen

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters. ↗

— Matt Emmons

#measured

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#appeared #century #china #christianity #earth

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#because #becoming #date #early #either