Variation Quotes

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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… — Charles Darwin
Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation… — Robert Stawell Ball
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before… — Molly Haskell
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than… — Marjory Stephenson
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity… — C. D. Darlington
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as… — John Tooby
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum… — Thomas Huxley
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is… — G. Stanley Hall
Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household… — Eva Cox
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of… — Edward Hoagland
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about… — Jose Raul Capablanca
...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes… — Josef Sudek
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally… — Charles Darwin
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. — G. Stanley Hall
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed — Charles Darwin
The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The… — John Beddington
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision. — Scott D. Cook

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