Quotes About Divergence

It is now known that the basic mutation rate in DNA is 0.71 per cent per million years. Working back from the present difference between chimpanzee and human DNA, we arrive at a figure of 6.6 million years ago for the chimpanzee–human divergence.5

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.

He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this?

The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

In fact, the people who live in this town exist—millions of them. They just don't happen to all live in the same town.

That there might be any practical divergence between my mother's situation and her own did not seem to occur to Aimee, and this was one of my earliest lessons in her way of viewing the differences between people, which were never structural or economic but always essentially differences of personality.

I don't see midgets as abnormal people.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda.

Not many people agree with what I do.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

Mustafa Ali is who I wanted to see when I was growing up. I'm not wearing anything on my head; I'm not saying anything in Arabic. I'm just going to come out as Mustafa Ali.

What a handsome pair! Strange thoughts assail me as it becomes plain to me that these two, so perfectly matched in birth, wealth, and mental superiority, live entirely apart, and have nothing in common but their name. The show of unity is only for the world.

Now, you and I cannot go two ways at the same time while we join in these merry doings; so we will e'en let Little John follow his own path while we tuck up our skirts and trudge after Robin Hood.

Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

You have no idea, in short, that what is normal to you is not also universal, that much of what you think of as human nature is only cultural.

Different can be good. It makes you pay attention" -Dr. Katz

We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

I mean, my understanding is that the live-action and the comic book versions of the Umbrella Academy' will parallel with each other while still keeping their distance, so that fans of the comic books who have already read the storyline has something new to look forward to and in approaching a new season.

The rhythm of sitar cannot be created with chords of guitar and vice versa as both the instruments have a distinct purpose in music.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.