Quotes about Variation
Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.
- Stephen Jay Gould
My character on 'The Crazy Ones' is entirely different than Bob Benson. If these guys ran into each other at a bar, I don't think they'd have much to talk about. They're really different guys.
- James Wolk
Every time a man is begotten and born the clock of human life is wound up anew, to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
- Robert Brault
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
- Oscar Wilde
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
- Mark Twain
As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
- Emily Bronte
Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.
- Albert Einstein
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
- John Lennon
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
- Stephen Jay Gould