Quotes About Variation

Adaptive radiation, whether in Darwin's finches or in Dicranum, creates new species that are well adapted for specific ecological niches.

What [Peirce] meant was that since nature evolves by chance variation, then the laws of nature must evolve by chance variation as well. Variations that are compatible with survival are reproduced; variations that are incompatible are weeded out. A tiny deviation from the norm in the outcome of a physical process can, over the long run, produce a new physical law. Laws are adaptive.

mundo cambia constantemente y no está regido por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Por el más insufrible, estúpido e inadmisible azar.

In this way, fluid and shape-shifting, we divide and multiply and move through time and space.

It seemed that digression was the true principle of the universe, that the only real subject was the way the subject kept changing.

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

Like snowflakes, none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before.

El método es el mismo para ti que para los profesionales. Lo que varía es el volumen de trabajo. —MICHELE FERRARI, ENTRENADOR DE CICLISMO ITALIANO

More astonishing, perhaps, is that the variation in DNA among members of the human family is actually larger than the variation between humans and chimpanzees.

What type of flavor do you think I prefer?" She cocked her head. "The subtle, the delicately made. You're the type of person who wants the mystery inside the flower bud." I can still appreciate the different nuances of the stronger flavors." He studied the orchid in the center of the table. "With the very delicate, you sculpt something down to such a whisper of form, there's nothing else it can be. It's in strength you find surprises, variation.

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

The only thing constant is change

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

The unchanging element is change—

One star differeth from another star in glory.

One among a thousand.

Once it becomes clear that feelings of emotion are primarily perceptions of our body state during a state of emotion, it is reasonable to say that all feelings of emotion contain a variation on the theme of primordial feelings, whatever the primordial feelings of the moment are, augmented by other aspects of body change that may or not be related to interoception.

You know, every city in Florida is different.

It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy.

In 100m, the timings fluctuate.

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.