Quotes About Variation

You express different energies at different times in your life.

As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.

Looking around at the diversity within our human race, it is obvious that 0.01% accounts for a significant difference in how we look, think, and behave.

Symbolism, originally intended as a countermovement to naturalism, actually turned out to be a variation of it rather than its antithesis.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, extraverts and introverts have not differed in their average reproductive output (although they might have differed at any one time or place in our evolutionary history). We can conclude that, while there are personality differences, there is no one "personality" that is inherently more adaptively successful than any other.

All life is variation upon certain themes

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

Everyone knows I am fast, so I have to change the way I play. I always know I have to change the way I score. Every game is different.

I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.

The proliferation of styles, genres, and media need not be the death knell of anything. Instead, it's a sign that our acceptance for variation and experimentation has become wider, our interests have become more diverse, and our appetites have become more omnivorous.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

In India, the wicket tends to get a bit slower once the ball gets old, but in England, it's pretty much the same whether it's new ball or old ball.

Islam is, to be sure, a big tent, and the one and a half billion Muslims in the world run the gamut from mystical, moderate, pacific Sufis to Salafists.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course,From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

As a rule, two extremely different alternative traits will not both be preserved by natural selection. One or the other is usually at least slightly more conducive to genetic proliferation. However marginal its edge, it should win out, given enough time.

You know what they say," Amanda said. "Hatred isn't the opposite of love, it's just another variation of it. They both mean you have passionate feelings for someone.