Quotes About Variation

There is an additional and compelling question that probably also will go unaddressed: what is a Protestant? In this brief Introduction I will demonstrate that the category 'Protestant' includes so much variation on such important matters as to be essentially meaningless, except when used very narrowly.

All happy endings are the same, but every unhappy ending is unhappy in its own way.

No one says always or never. Everyone says sometimes.

The normal distribution describes the manner in which many phenomena vary around a central value that represents their most probable outcome;

Over the hundreds of at bats he has each year, those random factors usually average out and result in some typical home run production that increases as the player becomes more skillful and then eventually decreases owing to the same process

The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.

regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

We cannot know whether our single observation represents the mean or an outlier, an event to bet on or a rare happening that is not likely to be reproduced.

wine might be rated 91, but that number is meaningless if we have no estimate of the variation that would occur if the identical wine were rated again and again or by someone else.

That the variation in human characteristics and behavior is distributed like the error in an archer's aim led some nineteenth-century scientists to study the targets toward which the arrows of human existence are aimed.

As a scientist, Ling had to keep an open and curious mind, to explore all sorts of permutations. It seemed to her that there were endless variations for love, too, if only people would allow their minds to consider them. Ling opened her eyes again. "Why…?" Ling stopped, afraid to say this aloud. "Why can't we be something new?

Fire and falling water. Always the same, yet always changing.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

There is nothing that is more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different

Szale?stwo: wykonywanie tej samej czynno?ci bez ko?ca i spodziewanie si?, ?e da to odmienne rezultaty.

All human minds are not the same, that intelligence differs not only in degree, but to some extent also in kind.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

They were a reshuffling of the genetic deck never seen on Earth.

I composed balanced sentences and periodic sentences and practiced, till I was blue in the face, the English department adage, Vary your sentence structure. Amazingly enough, having a mix of long and short sentences, along with topic-body-conclusion paragraph structure, did not automatically make my prose interesting.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme