Quotes About Variation

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game.

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn't true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

In a major study, researchers in Queensland collated the results of 2,748 papers and concluded the average variation across all human traits and diseases is caused by 49 per cent genetic factors and 51 per cent environmental factors.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

The most general way of stating the central assertion of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution is that a population of replicators subject to variation (for instance by imperfect copying) will be taken over by those variants that are better than their rivals at causing themselves to be replicated. This

a population of replicators subject to variation (for instance by imperfect copying) will be taken over by those variants that are better than their rivals at causing themselves to be replicated.

discovering good explanations is hard, but the harder they are to find, the harder they are to vary once found.

inventing falsehoods is easy, and therefore they are easy to vary once found; discovering good explanations is hard, but the harder they are to find, the harder they are to vary once found.

In the first half of the second millennium A.D., a revolutionary form of gambling swept across Asia and Europe. Allowing for infinitely more variation than dice games, capable of artistic embellishment and even educational lessons, playing cards would supplant dice as the favored gambling mechanism to most of the world.

Seasonal festivals may be a pale echo of older patterns of seasonal variation – but, for the last few thousand years of human history at least, they appear to have played much the same role in fostering political self-consciousness, and as laboratories of social possibility.

Insofar as there is a politics, here, it seems a variation on a theme seen since the dawn of capitalism. Ultimately, it's sociality itself that's treated as abusive, criminal, demonic. To this, most ordinary Americans—including Black and Latino Americans, recent immigrants, and others who were formerly excluded from credit—have responded with a stubborn insistence on continuing to love one another.