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Quotes About Variants

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
~ Anne Wojcicki
This is why the authors of Reinventing Jesus conclude, "The short answer to the question of what theological truths are at stake in these variants is—none.
~ Josh McDowell
If replicators exist that are active, variants of them with certain phenotypic effects tend to out-replicate those with other phenotypic effects. If they are also germ-line replicators, these changes in relative frequency can have long-term, evolutionary impact.
~ Richard Dawkins
Whenever a wide range of variant theories can account equally well for the phenomenon they are trying to explain, there is no reason to prefer one of them over the others, so advocating a particular one in preference to the others is irrational.
~ David Deutsch
I would not have been interested in doing just a revenge film simply because I have seen so many revenge films right from Clint Eastwood films to Amitabh Bachchan's 'Zanjeer', 'Sholay' and 'Ghayal' and various variants of them.
~ Sriram Raghavan
Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.
~ John Mackey
MAO-A variants show other important gene/environment interactions. For example, in one study the low-activity MAO-A variant predicts criminality, but only if coupled with high testosterone levels
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Inside was a ten-digit keypad. A combination lock. One through nine, plus zero, laid out like a telephone. A possible 3,628,800 variants. It
~ Lee Child
Although there are many variants of Plato's system, what makes them the same in regard to integration is their commitment to two fundamental principles. In metaphysics, their principle is supernaturalism. In epistemology, it is rationalism.
~ Leonard Peikoff
So what I am trying to relate is not that there are two, five, or seventy variants of atherosclerosis, but that there is multiplicity. That as long as the practicalities of enacting a disease are kept unbracketed, out in the open, the varieties of "atherosclerosis" multiply.
~ Annemarie Mol
In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country.
~ Joseph Jacobs
People who have no minds of their own are prone to believe in the fake news being shown with big blown views,reviews & interviews of hired people by media channels about virus variants like delta, omicron and so on
~ Anuj Somany
Not until we have familiarized ourselves with the dominant images which direct the course of human development shall we be able to understand the variants and sidelines which cluster round the main track.
~ Erich Neumann
As a psycholinguist who once wrote an entire book on the past tense, I can single out my favorite example in the history of the English language. It comes from the first sentence of a Wikipedia entry: Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. Yes, smallpox was.
~ Steven Pinker
the pretensions of anarchism in its individualist variants have always been laughable
~ Guy Debord
Similarly, modern religions that legitimize material wealth seem to be attractive, spreading fast at the expense of more austere variants, while religions that demand human sacrifice have not really stood the test of time.
~ Hal Whitehead
Particular variants in our pathogen-recognition genes, which protected us from ancient epidemics, correlate with a range of autoimmune disorders, from diabetes and multiple sclerosis to lupus.27
~ Sonia Shah
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Poverty may be powerful enough to swamp the influence of variants in our DNA.
~ Carl Zimmer
Above all, the Trump campaign, like the British Vote Leave campaign, made full use of Facebook's ad-testing capability, trying tens of thousands of variants to establish what worked best on the voters being targeted.
~ Niall Ferguson
essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.
~ Craig Blomberg
Bart Ehrman, in Misquoting Jesus, reminds us that there are more variants among the ancient documents than there are words in the New Testament.
~ Dan Barker
Some parts of the genome with a high frequency of Neanderthal variants shape hair and skin color and likely made the first Eurasians lighter-skinned than their African ancestors.
~ Christine Kenneally
I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity.
~ Craig Venter