Quotes About Variation

Feigenbaum persuaded himself that Goethe had been right about color. Goethe's ideas resemble a facile notion, popular among psychologists, that makes a distinction between hard physical reality and the variable subjective perception of it. The colors we perceive vary from time to time and from person to person—that much is easy to say.

The repetitions were never quite exact. There was pattern, with disturbances. An orderly disorder.

Yes I'm different... But!!! "You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different than me.

God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.

their different

Let's hear it for spontaneous mutation, folks!

Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.

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.

When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country to another. Cities look very different, often. They even feel very different. You know, and they are, of course. They certainly are.

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

There are stark, stark contrasts between myself and Jack Conway.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

What's annoying is we've launched a lot of shows like 'Pop Idol,' and then it goes to the States, and everything stays the same, yet they change the hosts. 'I'm A Celebrity' has been done twice in America now - but they changed the hosts. 'America's Got Talent,' we don't host - somebody else hosts.

Every part that I do has to be different from the last part that I did so I don't become a stereotype.

People are less aware, however, of another source of divergent beliefs—the fact that the same issue or situation is construed quite differently by different people, even people with the same tastes, values, and orientations. As social psychologist Solomon Asch noted many years ago, differences of opinion between people are not always linked to differences in their "judgment of the object," but often reflect differences in the very "object of judgment" itself.

Our common preference as a species is for difference rather than unity. (Vive la différence. Vive la guerre.) Nobody designed us to be this way—it just happens to be how we blundered into the nightmare of being. Life preys on life, per Schopenhauer

What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

God's method in calling sinners may vary, but the effect is still the same.

en todo hay dos polos o aspectos opuestos, y que los "opuestos" son realmente sólo los dos extremos de la misma cosa, con una variación de grado entre ellos.

they grab you off the street without warning, sack over your head and into the back of a van. Variation on tough love, but incredible success rate...

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.