Quotes About Variation

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

It's totally crazy! I can't believe all the young kids doing it in competition now. It's pretty unbelievable to have an element variation named after me.

Every season has its lipstick trend, and just because your perfect color is a pinky beige, that doesn't mean you can't wear deep burgundy.

I know many versions of truth that explain one fact.

Darwin's mechanism of natural selection and random variation necessarily required a lot of time to generate wholly novel organisms, creating a dilemma that Agassiz was keen to expose.

As Darwin described it, the ability of natural selection to produce significant biological change depends upon the presence of three distinct elements: (1) randomly arising variations, (2) the heritability of those variations, and (3) a competition for survival, resulting in differences in reproductive success among competing organisms.

What is the great difference," he wrote, "between supposing that God makes variable species or that he makes laws by which species vary?" A

We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population densities we have achieved. In

On the other hand, a basic play, in perfect order, can be achieved by, say, whistling fidgetingly while playing yourself. And I once converted two down into two up when playing golf against P. Beard, known also as the leader of an orchestra, by constantly whistling a phrase from the Dorabella Variation with one note – always the same note – wrong.

All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you're going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you've done something and there's a slight difference in your breathing.

I love when things can repeat and you can make things slightly different each time and just react to the music and react to the recording.

Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude.

I'm a perfectionist, and I like to do each scene slightly differently every time.

When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.

depatterning factor." There are times in the evolution of a species when the old patterns no longer avail, and the radical, potentially innovative perceptions and behaviors that psychedelics sometimes inspire may offer the best chance for adaptation. Think of it as a neurochemically induced source of variation in a population.

some types of neurons may be found only in specific species.

Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.

Nature is like a work by Bach or Beethoven, often starting with a central theme and making countless variations on it that are scattered throughout the symphony. By this criterion, it appears that strings are not fundamental concepts in nature.

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L'uomo, spinto dal senso della bellezza, transforma un avvenimento casuale (la musica di Beethoven, una morte alla stazione) in un motivo che va poi a iscriversi nella composizione della sua vita. Ad esso ritorna, lo ripete, lo varia, lo sviluppa, lo traspone, come fa il compositore con i temi della sua sonata.