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Variation Quotes by Charles Darwin
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed
- 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…
- 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,…
- I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
- This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor…
More Variation Quotes
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...… — G. Stanley Hall
- The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given… — G. Stanley Hall
- You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim
- Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations. — Neal A. Maxwell
- On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species… — 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… — Tom Peters
- We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes… — Lewis H. Lapham