Quotes About Divergence

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

The difference between you and me, is the different reflection that we both see.

The moon is the same but the observers are different.

I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn't true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

The fault of opposition", he remarked, "is a determination to make differences where few exist and those trifling.

From the beginning most of history was a story of divergence: humans' biological and cultural differentiation as they evolved and dispersed across the planet. For the past millennium, history has been dominated by convergent forces, of which globalization is the latest phase. During this era that I call the Great Convergence, human interaction, trade, and intercommunication have increased at a rapid rate.

Back in the 1930s, the anthropologist Gregory Bateson coined the term 'schismogenesis' to describe people's tendency to define themselves against one another.37

this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don't.