Quotes About Divergence

It would take a while to occur to him that my rules had sweet fuck-all in common with his.

I like incongruity.

I don't like to talk about what other players think because, as we say in Spanish, every person is a world, their own world.

Italian football's different to Spanish and German, but it's only different and not inferior.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

Different people are attracted to me depending on how I look. I have a very broad spectrum of attraction.

A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others.

At any rate the total number of persons at the table was not enormously larger than the number of categories, meaning that nearly everyone present was reacting in an altogether different way, and in most cases doing so rather strongly, leading to a pandemonium of fainting, screaming, knife waving, malicious glaring, furious remonstration, hand-clapping delight, dismay, judicious beard stroking, etc. to say nothing of secondary interactions, as when a knife waver collided with a screamer.

Because equality is sameness—and the last thing the world needs is sameness.

Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion.

the universe expands forever in every direction for all of time, taking on the shape of a saddle, in which initially parallel lines diverge.

Allow there to be a spectrum in all that you see.

In marked contrast, Ottoman scientific progress was non-existent in this same period. The best explanation for this divergence was the unlimited sovereignty of religion in the Muslim world. Towards the end of the eleventh century, influential Islamic clerics began to argue that the study of Greek philosophy was incompatible with the teachings of the Koran.32

The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly with a comparable convergence in religiosity. Europeans not only work less; they also pray less – and believe less.

Essentially, we took two peoples Ã¢â'¬â€œ the Koreans and the Germans Ã¢â'¬â€œ and divided them in two. South Koreans and West Germans got capitalist institutions; North Koreans and East Germans got communist ones. The divergence that occurred in the space of just a few decades was enormous.

Everyone likes different things. Not everyone's the same. Not everyone runs their mouth. Not everyone can fight.

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.