Variation Quotes - Page 3

... 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.

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.

Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

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

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

Originality is only variation.

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.)

Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

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.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

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

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

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

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.