#relative

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#almost #class #completely #effect #extra

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. ↗

— Francis Crick

#bases #been #changes #composition #data

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#contacted #famous #fbi #friends #hideous

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth. ↗

— Matt Damon

#did #great #grow #grow up #i

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#family #fight #percy-jackson #relatives #family

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#feel #global #guilty #level #percent

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ancestors #choose #create #ones #others

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#accidents #causes #intelligence #man #only

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#child #compared #corresponding #deal #importance