Quotes About Variables

A small system S does not distinguish the details of the rest of the universe because it interacts only with a few among the variables of the rest of the universe.

T]he elementary form of the mechanics of the world...does not need to mention 'time.' The world without a time variable is not a complicated one. It's a net of interconnected events, where the variables in play adhere to probabilistic rules that, incredibly, we know for a good part how to write. And it's a clear world, windswept and full of beauty as the crests of mountains; aridly beautiful as the cracked lips of the adolescent you loved.

It is the limit up to which we can determine physical variables.

This is Dirac's quantum mechanics: a recipe for calculating the spectra of the variables, and a recipe for calculating the probability that one or another value in the spectrum appears during an interaction.

The "present" does not exist in an objective sense any more than "here" exists objectively, but the microscopic interactions within the world prompt the emergence of temporal phenomena within a system (for instance, ourselves) that interacts only through the medium of a myriad of variables. Our

The origin of time may be similar to that of heat: it comes from averages of many microscopic variables. Let's see this in detail.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

For urban systems, growth rate is a fast variable, governance is a medium variable, and infrastructure is a slow variable, with slow variables ultimately determining the resilience of a system (Allen and Holling 2008).

TABLE 1-1. Levels of the three variables that characterize four system traps (Holling et al. 2002; Allison and Hobbs 2004; Angeler et al. 2020). Capital Connectivity Resilience Rigidity trap High High High Poverty trap Low Low Low Eroding trap Low–eroding High High Isolation trap High Low–none Low

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.

Psychotherapy is like an equation with two unknowns—Psi equals x plus y. The one unknown is that ever variable and incalculable factor, the personality of the Doctor, and the other unknown is the individuality of the patient.

All he had to do was simultaneously solve several multiple-variable equations, and hope he'd get it right.

Thus, 1 is actually a function with the two bound variables f and x. Just offhand, those two variables seem like two more variables than are needed to define a simple number.

Regression analysis is the hydrogen bomb of the statistics arsenal.

In the particular study reviewed by Blass that focused on religious dispositional variables, those that scored high on many of the religious variables were more accepting of the commands of an authority than were those who scored lower or were indiscriminately antireligious.

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.

M. Executive, I have explained the variables that require an alteration in our battle plan. Shall I begin this briefing again?

The researchers have found, in essence, that our advice to others tends to hinge on the single most important factor, while our own thinking flits among many variables. When we think of our friends, we see the forest. When we think of ourselves, we get stuck in the trees.§

This will be a frequent dilemma for historians trying to apply the comparative method to problems of human history: apparently too many potentially independent variables, and far too few separate outcomes to establish those variables' importance statistically.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

I can positively assist you to explore and appreciate the variables of humility instead of the constants of pride and arrogance

The most essential aspects of this philosophy seem to the author, however, to be its assumption that the great diversity of things that appear in all of our experience, every day as well as scientific, can all be reduced completely and perfectly to nothing more than consequences of the operation of an absolute and final set of purely quantitative laws determining the behaviour of a few kinds of basic entities or variables.