Variables Quotes - Page 3

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly. Yet when astronomers have the temerity to show that climate is driven by solar activities rather than CO2 emissions, they are dismissed as dinosaurs undertaking the methods of old-fashioned science.

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing.

The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

All variables are independent.

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

You make one tiny variable and so help me, I’ll have you slaughtered where you sit. (Kiefer) He’s just such a nice man. (Nykyrian)

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.