Stacey D'Erasmo

Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so infinitesimal. And once you're in, the chances of staying viable are difficult. But there is something incredibly different about performing in front of a live audience, as opposed to sitting at your desk typing.

American Novelist

Jay Griffiths

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

British Author

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

French Philosopher

Richard Dawkins

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

English Scientist

Om Malik

People pay little attention to banner ads - in fact, everyone dislikes them - and that leads to infinitesimally small click-through rates that make marketers unhappy.

Indian Writer

Rainer Weiss

You think Earth's gravity is really something when you're climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny little effect.

American Physicist

Sidney Altman

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

Canadian Scientist

Oliver Tambo

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

South African Politician

Tim Minchin

I've spent years on stage adjusting the timing of a line to infinitesimal degrees.

Australian Comedian

Nick Lowe

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

English Musician

Use 'infinitesimal' to emphasize the extreme smallness of something compared to what's expected.

Scale of Size

'Infinitesimal' can be used figuratively to express something negligible or insignificant.

Figurative Use

Avoid using 'infinitesimal' as a hyperbole for 'small'; it means something much smaller.

Not Hyperbole

'Infinitesimal' in math refers to quantities smaller than any fixed number but not zero.

Mathematical Concept

In math, infinitesimals are a way of speaking about the behavior of functions, not actual sizes.

Not Literal Math

The noun form of 'infinitesimal' is mainly used in academic or specialized contexts.

Academic Language

 yet we take it for granted that your ears can capture that infinitesimal signal and use it to signal to the brain the full range of auditory the human voice, music, the natural world. How does your ear do that? And the answer to that

The beautiful,...

 infinitesimal nugget of space and then something happened triggering the most colossal explosion in history in a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second the universe grew