Quotes for All
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden… The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite. G. … Read more
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
Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household and family arrangements. If women with children and family responsibilities are almost always seriously limited by these, then those currently in power will not have the personal experience necessary to … Read more
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… Erwin Schrodinger
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Erwin Schrodinger
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers…There are …purveyors who label their ‘iso-amygdalin’ products ‘amygdalin’ contrary to all of the recognized specs…For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy…This scientific heresy and commercial fraud…(is) … Read more
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. Ernst Mayr
Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over the range of variation in the conditions, and therefore will stifle the development of other advantageous factors until the conditions change sufficiently that it no longer is the winning factor. At … Read more