Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the…

Rather than be afraid of evolution and try to stifle inquiry, people should revel in the joys of knowing and find a serenity and…

— Sylvia Earle

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

— Jerry A. Coyne

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my…

— William Wilberforce

“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding conditions as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression,…

— Herman Melville

I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even…

— Richard A. Falk

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your…

— T.F. Hodge

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow…

— James Hansen

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization,…

— Masaaki Imai

“Experiences with finite variability become less engaging because they eventually become predictable. Businesses with finite variability are not inferior per se, they just operate…

— Nir Eyal

The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices…

— Alfred D. Chandler, Jr

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the…

— Anonymous

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over…

— John H. Sununu