inversely QUOTES

1 " The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts. "

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2 " It is no more appropriate to speak of a difference between the purchasing power of money in Germany and in Austria than it would be justifiable to conclude from differences between the prices charged by hotels on the peaks and in the valleys of the Alps that the objective exchange-value of money is different in the two situations and to formulate some such proposition as that the purchasing power of money varies inversely with the height above sea-level. The purchasing power of money is the same everywhere "

3 " Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size. "

― Cassandra Duffy

4 " If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is dependent upon the mechanical adjustments of his body, and that inversely his body is subjected with certain limitations to his will, then it only remains for him to make one assumption more, namely, that this mutual interdependence between the spiritual and the material is itself also dependent on law, and he has discovered the bond by which the science of the matter and the science of consciousness are united into a single whole. "

― Samuel Butler , Unconscious Memory

5 " If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is a good theory, is it not? No. It is nowhere near as good as the proposition that the planets move around the sun under the influence of a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square of the distance from the center. The second theory is better because it is so specific; it is so obviously unlikely to be the result of chance. It is so definite that the barest error in the movement can show that it is wrong; but the planets could wobble all over the place, and, according to the first theory, you could say, ‘Well, that is the funny behavior of the ‘oomph. "

― Richard P. Feynman , The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

6 " One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their
intellectual level. "

― Daniel Willey

7 " Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow " relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility. "

8 " Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence. "

9 " Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue. "

10 " The mistake in the argument of those who suppose that a variation in the quantity of money results in an inversely proportionate variation in its purchasing power lies in its starting-point. If we wish to arrive at a correct conclusion, we must start with the valuations of separate individuals; we must examine the way in which an increase or decrease in the quantity of money affects the value-scales of individuals, for it is from these alone that variations in the exchange-ratios of goods proceed. "

― Ludwig von Mises , The Theory of Money and Credit

11 " Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand. "

― Jean-Philippe Toussaint , Television

12 " The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them. "

― George Pólya , Mathematical Discovery on Understanding, Learning, and Teaching Problem Solving, Volume I

13 " The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed. "

― Karl Marx , Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit

14 " Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety. "

15 " The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. "