Quotes About Variance

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but the percentages remain constant

while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

Even within monotheist religions themselves, conceptions of divinity vary wildly. The quest for a single concept that will embrace these diverse conceptions quickly turns to a search for the lowest common denominator of godhood.

and to extinguish all books, all schools, all combinations of individuals for joint action upon society, which may be attempted for the purpose of keeping alive a spirit at variance with its own. Is it, we say, the proper condition of man, in all ages and nations, to be under the despotism of Public Opinion?

Men are by nature are unequal and those who seek equality among unequal's seeks absurdity.

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Figure 12.1: Maximal Entropy and Maximal Variance

Deoarece principiul de incertitudine nu permite s? avem valori exacte atât pentru câmp, cât È™i pentru viteza lui de variaÈ›ie, spaÈ›iul nu e niciodat? gol. El poate avea o starea de energie minim?, numit? vid, dar acea stare e supus? la ceea ce numim fluctuaÈ›ii cuantice sau fluctuaÈ›ii ale vidului.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

In fact, happiness is one of the most highly heritable aspects of personality. Twin studies generally show that from 50 percent to 80 percent of all the variance among people in their average levels of happiness can be explained by differences in their genes rather than in their life experiences. 28 (Particular episodes of joy or depression, however, must usually be understood by looking at how life events interact with a person's emotional predisposition.)

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

We need to start from a presupposition: namely, that there is no 'better' football and no 'worse' kind of football, just different styles and cultures that belong to each country.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

The world's religious rivals are clearly related, but they are more like second cousins than identical twins. They do not teach the same doctrines. They do not perform the same rituals. And they do not share the same goals.

The Principle of Unequal Distribution

Las costumbres y las leyes pueden establecer derechos y deberes comunes a todos los hombres; pero éstos serán siempre tan desiguales como las olas que erizan la superficie de un océano.

The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't.

That's the biggest thing I struggle with. We could never hope to represent every gay person in America. There will be people who will say, 'Well, my experience of being gay isn't like that,' to which I can only say, 'That's fine.'

Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

It's pretty cool to see, like, from town to town, how different the crowds are.

It's the same with most injuries, different players take different amounts of time.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cupcakes than others; some are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.