Quotes About Variation

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.

People vary. You change your style, your hair, and the way you dress. Talking differently will be a part of that.

My biggest strength is the way I vary pace without any change in my hand-speed. The batsmen can't make out.

I tend to bowl outside the off-stump and I vary my pace.

Whenever I bowl, I vary the pace because otherwise, it becomes easy for the batsmen if you bowl at the same pace.

I am five foot two and a half, and vary between a size 10 and size 12.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse, and then they pop into high gear, and then they go back into slow, and then they pop into high gear again.

You need a balance at all times. If the verse is a bit messy, you need it to be less messy right after. It needs to vary. 'Shake It Off' is a good example, where the math behind the drama is pretty clear.

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

Difference is the essence of extremity

I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.

I'm a bit of a chameleon. My style changes depending on my mood, as I get bored really quickly.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play.

We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it.

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

Whatever is true is true, but not all truths are necessary truths. It is true that adding two pebbles to two pebbles makes four pebbles; but adding two drops of water to two drops can make one pool (Piaget, 1967d, p. 582). What this means is that the action of adding actual objects together can have alternative outcomes; the sum of adding two and two can be other than four – that is a real possibility, and no contradiction arises from this.

Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme