Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and…

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.…

— Roger Scruton

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to…

— Menzies Campbell

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.

— Leonid Shamkovich

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like…

— Cee Lo Green

You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all…

— David Maraniss

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton……

— James Clerk Maxwell

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is…

— Charles Darwin

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can…

— Jack Gould

“The limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love-stories in…

— George Eliot

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley