Variance Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but… — Eugene H. Peterson
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time… — Ronald Fisher
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of… — Thomas Cole
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the… — Alexander Hamilton
Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma… — Gautama Buddha
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is… — Charlotte Bronte
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the… — Bruce Babbitt
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men. — H.G. Wells
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more… — Abraham Lincoln
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions — Edward Coke
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… — Alfred de Vigny
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher
The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon… — Ludwik Fleck
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he… — A. N. Wilson
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them. — Timothy Leary
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment. — Carol Gilligan

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