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Quotes About Variation

Après douze générations, la proportion du sang, pour employer une expression vulgaire, n'est que de 1 sur 2 048; et pourtant, comme nous le voyons, on croit généralement que cette proportion infiniment petite de sang étranger suffit à déterminer une tendance au retour [ de ces caractères perdus. ]
~ Charles Darwin
Grâce à cette lutte, les variations, quelque faibles qu'elles soient, et de quelque causes qu'elles proviennent, tendent à préserver les individus d'une espèce et se transmettent ordinairement à leur descendance, pourvu qu'elles soient utiles à ces individus dans leurs rapports infiniment complexes avec les autres êtres organisés et avec la nature extérieure.
~ Charles Darwin
Comme il naît beaucoup plus d'individus de chaque espèce qu'il n'en peut survivre; comme, en conséquence, la lutte pour l'existence se renouvelle à chaque instant, il s'ensuit que tout être qui varie quelque peu que ce soit de façon qui lui est profitable a une plus grande chance de survivre; cet être est ainsi l'objet d'une sélection naturelle.
~ Charles Darwin
Enfin, tous les naturalistes pourraient citer des cas innombrables d'espèces restant absolument les mêmes, c'est-à-dire qui ne varient en aucune façon, bien qu'elles vivent sous les climats les plus divers. Ces considérations me poussent à attribuer très peu de poids à l'action directe des conditions de vie.
~ Charles Darwin
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection
~ Charles Darwin
muchísimas de las variaciones domésticas más marcadas no podrían vivir en estado salvaje, puesto que en muchos casos no sabemos cuál sea el tronco primitivo, y por consiguiente, no podemos decir si se ha verificado o no el retroceso casi perfecto, mientras que para evitar los efectos del cruzamiento sería necesario que una sola variedad hubiera quedado suelta en su nueva residencia.
~ Charles Darwin
La selección natural obra solamente por medio de la conservación de las variaciones que son en algún concepto ventajosas. Podemos comprender que cualquier forma representada por pocos individuos correrá mucho riesgo de quedar completamente extinguida
~ Charles Darwin
Podemos creer que la selección natural llegue a producir, por una parte, un órgano de insignificante importancia, como la cola de la jirafa, que sirve de espantamoscas, y por otra parte, un órgano tan maravilloso como el ojo?
~ Charles Darwin
since all organisms vary, and all reproduce themselves in greater numbers than can survive, there must always be competition between variants; in other words, the principle of natural selection, too, is universally applicable.
~ Charles Darwin
species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral characters.
~ Charles Darwin
Habiendo tenido ejemplares vivos de casi todas las castas inglesas de aves de corral, habiéndoselas criado y cruzado, después de examinar sus esqueletos, nos parece casi cierto que en su totalidad descienden de la raza salvaje india Gallus bankiva.
~ Charles Darwin
I believe in Natural Selection, not because I can prove in any single case that it has changed one species into another, but because it groups and explains well (as it seems to me) a host of facts in classification, embryology, morphology, rudimentary organs, geological succession and distribution.
~ Charles Darwin
Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects.
~ Charles Darwin
federal researchers cannot rule out mere chance as the cause of any variation in the performance of students who use these software products and students who do not.
~ Charles Wheelan
For distributions without serious outliers, the median and the mean will be similar.
~ Charles Wheelan
The standard deviation is the descriptive statistic that allows us to assign a single number to this dispersion around the mean.
~ Charles Wheelan
some might have 62 blue marbles and 38 red marbles, or 58 blue and 42 red. But the chances of drawing any random sample that deviates hugely from the composition of marbles in the urn are very, very low.
~ Charles Wheelan
we have now introduced two different measures of dispersion: the standard deviation and the standard error.
~ Charles Wheelan
The standard error measures the dispersion of the sample means.
~ Charles Wheelan
The t-distribution is actually a series, or "family," of probability density functions that vary according to the size of our sample.
~ Charles Wheelan
As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.
~ Sanaa Lathan
I don't listen to music that I won't like in a month.
~ Antoni Porowski
It's interesting: I think, genetically, there are people who need different things, like exercise. I need the exercise, others not so much, and I think more and more, we'll start to understand why people's bodies function in certain ways.
~ Anne Wojcicki
even have our own catchphrase, the 'postcode lottery', to describe the scandal that standards vary from place to place. It is something of a national obsession. We want all of our public services to be like Coca-Cola: all identical, all good. And they can't be. If we are to take the 'variation
~ Tim Harford