Quotes About Variation

He is the same, but everything is different.

Kanonische Veränderungen über das Weihnachtslied

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

pace of genetic selection, recombination

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

It made me dizzy to realise that this was but a fraction of all the men the world had bred. How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? Did the earth not go mad?

How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? Did the earth not go mad

It made me dizzy to realize that this was but a fraction of a fraction of all the men the world had bred. How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces? Did the earth not go mad?

The verses build up the tension, and the choruses release it, letting the joy in. After two choruses, there's usually a bridge, also known as "the middle eight," which is a variation on the verse melody, followed by the final chorus and coda.

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Things do not change with a change of scene.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and to a monster the norm is monstrous.

No, to a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.

Distances are only the relation of space to time and vary with that relation.

the fact remains that there is a certain objective reality in each of these people, and consequently a difference among them.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Y puede, puede así, que las muertes no sean to­das iguales. Puede que hasta después de la muerte, todos sigamos distintos caminos.

Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.