Quotes About Variation

Although all the characteristics of living things are dependent on both genetic and environmental factors, the differences between two individuals in their attributes may be due to either one or the other component (or both). That is, a difference in either genes or environment can generate a developmental difference arising from the interplay that always takes place between two factors within developing organisms.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different with each the absence of love is the same

Translator's Note: When the violin repeats what the piano has just played, it cannot make the same sounds and it can only approximate the same chords. It can, however, make recognizably the same "music", the same air. But it can do so only when it is as faithful to the self-logic of the violin as it is to the self-logic of the piano.

We can easily imagine worlds in which the constants of Nature take on slightly different numerical values where living beings like ourselves would not be possible. Make the fine structure constant bigger and there can be no atoms, make the strength of gravity greater and stars exhaust their fuel very quickly, reduce the strength of nuclear forces and there can be no biochemistry, and so on.

And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

phenotypic plasticity

Although yoga is supposedly noncompetitive, I can't help that my Alpha nature requires that I go for the hardest variation of every pose, always pushing my limits as far as possible.

Though this guard is natural to them, yet they vary every moment, to perplex their adversaries,

To some extent, a similarity with others can be possible; however, no one has been entirely the same in no way. Since as thumbs lines and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) match not with others, in the same way, character, and attitude hold variant impacts of everyone as well.

Move on another plane in the name of one's own difference.

Everything was at once overwhelmingly the same and ever so slightly different.

A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

Change in all things is sweet.

Abstract accuracy is no more to be expected in all philosophic treatises than in all products of art, and noble and just acts with which the art political is concerned admit of such great variation and of so many differences that they have been held to depend upon conventional rather than upon real distinctions.

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.

There's a difference between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Brooklyn and Queens. There's a difference.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different.

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

I like to keep the big dynamic changes between my songs, so that album songs feel radically different from each other.

Natural selection is anything but random.