Quotes About Variability

Les estimations du nombre d'individus ancestraux nécessaires pour rendre compte de toute la variabilité génétique actuelle tournent autour de 15 000 individus en tout et pour tout... qui seraient à l'origine des six milliards et demi d'hommes actuels.

The laws of economics are to be compared with the laws of the tides, rather than with the simple and exact law of gravitation. For the actions of men are so various and uncertain, that the best statement of tendencies, which we can make in a science of human conduct, must needs be inexact and faulty.

All's change, but permanence as well"... and continued:   "Truth inside, and outside, truth also; and between each, falsehood that is change, as truth is permanence."   "Truth successively takes shape, one grade above its last presentment...

Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

You never know how you're going to react to something. To anything. Tragedy, joy, heartache. They affect us all in different ways in different times and different places.

If you don't like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.

The weather in New York, it fluctuates so much. Some days it's humid, some days you have a thunderstorm.

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

Critics' points of view can be one thing today and be very different in a few years.

The difficulty with American television is it's pot luck.

Every game is a different game and I have to find a way. I have to be consistent every night.

Since when is politics consistent?

If you are just constantly doing the same thing, good batters can adjust.

For every striker, it's important to have some crosses. Sometimes they come, sometimes not.

I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.

People differ in their talents, their intellectual strengths and weaknesses, their preferred forms of imagery, their mental vigor.

Any custom is man-made and is therefore a finite attempt to describe an infinity of relationships. It follows as the night from day that any custom necessarily has its exceptions.