#variation

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. ↗

— Tori Amos

#dangerous #dangerous thing #doing #i #i think

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#better #brahms #his #mine #than

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. ↗

— James A. Michener

#concern #crucial #does #else #except

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#music #real #real world #related #see

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

— Neil Jordan

#films #gotten #line #out #story

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

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