Variant Quotes

40 quotes by 36 authors

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her. — W.C. Fields
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by… — Jacques Monod
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that… — Hermann Joseph Muller
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once… — Richard Stallman
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness… — Saint Augustine
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to… — Marcus Aurelius
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence. — Hans Asperger
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body.Â I… — Del LaGrace Volcano
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that.… — Andrew Rippin
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian… — F. F. Bruce
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The… — David Graeber
First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified,… — Margaret Heckler
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law… — Leonardo da Vinci
With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some… — Cynthia Heimel
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to… — Mary Douglas
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural… — Leonard Peikoff

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