Quotes by Variation Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. Ernst Mayr variationevolutionprocess What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Erwin Schrodinger variationspacebody 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... Erwin Schrodinger mutationvariationenergy Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations. Fernand Point variationdelightcooking Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. Franz Liszt brahmscomposervariation Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. George C. Williams variationtheorynumbers A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful. Gichin Funakoshi variationlevelsable The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.) Glen Duncan variationdesigntwo There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially. Gloria Allred variationendlesshurt There's more variation among human groups than between human groups. Gloria Steinem variationgroupshumans Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary. Harold Jeffreys evidencevariationtaken Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible. Henri Cartier-Bresson strictvariation Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose. Henry Gee variationpurposememories His brothers were the type; he was the variation. Henry Adams variationfamilybrother Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material. Hermann Joseph Muller variationdifferencesscience Originality is only variation. Holbrook Jackson variationoriginality I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality. Haruki Murakami variationpersonalitythinking ...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. Ian Mcewan variationbandhands ... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning. Isabel Briggs Myers variationdifferencesfacts The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. Isaac Asimov variationerrorslaw«12345678»
