Quotes About Deviation

Fourth, they sometimes 'swerved'. The swerve was a deviation from the basic downward path. It occurred frequently enough to cause the entanglement of many atoms; the result was a universe containing objects of a sufficient size to be experienced instead of a universe in which individual imperceptible atoms simply rained down. The atomic swerve, Epicurus thought, could supply the basis for free will, if only by providing a model of spontaneous, unpredictable, undetermined action.

Listen, Hilarius said after awhile, have I seemed to you a good enough Freudian? Have I ever deviated seriously? You made faces now and then, said Oedipa, but that's minor.

That was my brother: it was like he was his own species, one that had sneaked a couple thousand extra years in while evolution was looking the other way.

Not to put too fine a point on it, one could say that the real picture consists of nothing but exceptions to the rule, and that, in consequence, absolute reality has predominantly the character of irregularity.

Für sich selbst eine Ausnahme zu machen ist natürlich die Regel.

La sociedad inventa una lógica falsa y retorcida para absorber y canalizar el comportamiento de la gente cuyo comportamiento está fuera de los cánones mayoritarios.

It's quite a layered character that I portray in 'Jalebi' and I needed to deviate and cut-off completely from the world to get into a different zone as a character. I'm really glad it proved beneficial and worked to my advantage.

Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

Diseased ovaries still represented a deviation from standard femininity, but a differently defined femininity. If nineteenth-century women were thought to develop ovarian disease because of too much libido, their twentieth-century descendants apparently had too little.

Outliers are increasingly unlikely. You

But possible future deviations from the course of the past are infinite.

I make her leave on her stockings and high heels. I am a freak. I cannot bear the human being in present state, I must be fooled. the psychiatrists must have a word for it, and I have a word for the psychiatrists.

lei ti sorride. un sorriso che dice: so che sei pazzo ma per me va bene lo stesso.

By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure, generally injurious, or not useful to the species.

The standard deviation is the descriptive statistic that allows us to assign a single number to this dispersion around the mean.

The central limit theorem tells us that a large sample will not typically deviate sharply from its underlying population

some might have 62 blue marbles and 38 red marbles, or 58 blue and 42 red. But the chances of drawing any random sample that deviates hugely from the composition of marbles in the urn are very, very low.

The standard deviation measures dispersion in the underlying population

If you are looking for someone to break the mold, the last guy you look to is Robert Mueller.

If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.

It took determination to be really strange. That, or absinthe before breakfast every day.

Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Normal is just what's average, it's not necessarily the only way of being, or living

My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!