#relative

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#around #come #dock #earth #end

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. ↗

— Ian Hart

#edit #i #i can #light #relatively

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#best #ends #how #importance #individuals

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#about #blood #choose #family #life

At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#end #had #prices #relatively #some

Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#been #change #complete #dramatic #dramatic change

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly. ↗

— Evan Davis

#big #bubble #bursting #economy #escaped

This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars. ↗

— Susan Dey

#decided #did #disgusting #eating #few