Quotes About Variation

There is always another side, always.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

There are two kinds of people in this world. And I'm not one of them.

and they varied in thickness from about 18 inches to more than 2½ feet.

Constant complaints that Muslim communities are not 'integrating' properly into Western values and ways of life shade into the idea that they are permanently 'outsiders' in relation to the West. Again, the huge variation in the secularization and 'Westernization' among younger generations of Muslims is simply swept away.

By the 1970s and 1980s, the concept of 'phenotype'—which refers to surface features of humans such as skin colour, shape of nose, texture of hair, shape and size of skull, and so forth—on which those attempting to develop a tenable concept of race and a hierarchy of races had relied, had been compellingly refuted as a guide to genuine human variation.

there was only a 15 per cent genetic variation across 'racially' and geographically classified populations.

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.

'Fly' really is the polar opposite of 'Girl in a Country Song.'

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

Pageants have consistently evolved over the decades and have tried numerous plays on different portions of the competition.

I changed Portugal to France and France to England.

I love to have contrast.

It's always in a cycle. One set of plays will work really well for a time, and then defenses figure it out, and you go to something else.

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.

There are lots of different ways of playing football. It depends on how tall you are, what position you're in.

That the word intelligence describes something real and that it varies from person to person is as universal and ancient as any understanding about the state of being human.

he was led to put in formal terms what most people had always taken for granted: People vary in their intellectual abilities and the differences matter, to them personally and to society.

Normal is the average of deviance.

What do you think? More cheese? Less cheese? Different cheese?

What our instruments and brains tell us consists of relative realities or cross-sections of realities. A thermometer, for instance, does not measure length. A yardstick does not measure temperature. A voltmeter tells us nothing about gas pressure. Etc. A poet does not register the same spectrum as a banker. An Eskimo does not perceive the same world as a New York cab driver. Etc.