Variation Quotes

Artisan variation is beautiful to the unique eye of the beholder.

I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African.

The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?

Information that we copy from person to person, by imitation, by language, by talking, by telling stories, by wearing clothes, by doing things - this is information copied with variation and selection. This is [a] design process.

A lie has many variations, the truth none.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

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 of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent;

the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.

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 will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.