Variation Quotes

250 quotes by 212 authors

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance… — Lord Chesterfield
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but… — Noam Chomsky
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet… — Hillary Clinton
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. — Tori Amos
Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations. — Neal A. Maxwell
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the… — Gerald Weinberg
On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera… — Karl Landsteiner
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median -… — Tom Peters
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. — Margaret Fuller
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their… — Alfred Kinsey
Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't… — Byron Katie
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
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
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects… — Ronald Fisher
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful… — Charles Darwin

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