Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ricardo

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.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

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.

Alfred Kinsey

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

Sergio Aragones

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

Charles Darwin

It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed

E. O. Wilson

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

E. O. Wilson

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

Daniel Barenboim

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

C. S. Lewis

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

Holbrook Jackson

Originality is only variation.

Johannes Brahms

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

Erwin Schrodinger

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...

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

Jacqueline Carey

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

Franz Liszt

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

Robert Wilson

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

Ernst Mayr

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

Ernst Mayr

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.

Mary McCarthy

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

John Steinbeck

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Robert Hass

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Richard Owen

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.

Richard Holbrooke

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

Walter Gilbert

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

Ronald Fisher

We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.