I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if… — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police.… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
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… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be… — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's… — Menzies Campbell Copy Share Image
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s.… — Tim Meadows Copy Share Image
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. — Walter A. Shewhart Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
