The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they…

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some…

— Herman Melville

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

Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of…

— Judith Curry

It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.

— Katherine Dunn

“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

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

“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could formerly be…

— William Bateson