A Quote by Richard Dawkins

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins
English - Scientist
Born: March 26, 1941

I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.

Ben Gibbard

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

John Lennon

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

Richard Holbrooke

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

John Zimmerman

Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.

Meg Wolitzer

I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.

Alexander Kotov

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

Tori Amos

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

Jonathan Tropper

'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.

Kate Christensen

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

Robert Wilson

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

John A. Keel

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

John Lanchester

Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

Ian Hacking

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.

Jon Katz

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

Gary Larson

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

M. Emmet Walsh

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