Quotes about variation
variation economics destroyed
Charles Darwin It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed
variation males female
Alfred Kinsey The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
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E. O. Wilson Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.
variation repetition feels
Robert Hass Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.
variation experiments related
Ronald Fisher 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 are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.
variation monsters chaos
John Steinbeck You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
variation patterns endless
Jacqueline Carey There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme
variation littles energy
Erwin Schrodinger 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 energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...
variation strict
Henri Cartier-Bresson Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
variation composer brahms
Franz Liszt Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
variation obvious norm
C. S. Lewis There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
variation evolution certain
Ernst Mayr Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
variation new-start generations
Ernst Mayr 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, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.
variation born conducting
Daniel Barenboim You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.