Quotes About Variation

I like the idea that things can exist in different formats - in a gallery, a fashion ad, in books.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it.

One good thing about being brought up with Chinese food from another country means that you're not a purist and you will accept deviation.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

He fascinated because he touched on the agonal instinct of the Hellenes – he introduced a variation into the wrestling-matches among the youths and young men. Socrates was also a great erotic.

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.

Change in all things is sweet.

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

You change all the time. Everything changes you.

Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer.

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

If your feet are in two buckets and the average temperature of the water is 90 degrees, you're probably fine—unless one bucket is at 35 and the other is at 145 degrees. On average, you're fine. Based on variation, though, you're miserable.

Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.