Variation Quotes

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Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual… — Charles Darwin
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,… — Charles Darwin
Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only… — Seamus Heaney
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. — Franz Liszt
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals… — Emma Goldman
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C.S. Lewis
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes,… — Gerhard Richter
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed… — John B. S. Haldane
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it… — David Ricardo
The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles,… — Paul Washer
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of… — Erwin Schrodinger
I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge… — Martina Hingis
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it… — E. O. Wilson
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution,… — Ernst Mayr
Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there… — Nicky Ryan
There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially, — Gloria Allred
The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous… — William A. Clark
Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. — Walter A. Shewhart
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biologyâ€™s last twenty years has inflamed… — Niles Eldredge

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