Robert J. Shiller

As a child, I was fascinated by any branch of physical or biological science. Even today, I find great excitement in discovering the complexity and variability of the world we live in, getting a glimpse into the deeper reality that we mostly ignore in our everyday human activities.

American Economist

Murray Rothbard

The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience: hence, the general recognition of the antihuman nature of a world of coerced uniformity.

William Osler

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Canadian Scientist

Peter Garrett

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

Australian Musician

Richard Owen

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

English Scientist

David Hare

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

English Playwright

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Lebanese Scientist

Katherine Dunn

It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.

American Novelist

Look for adjectives or adverbs near 'variability' to understand what type it refers to.

Context Clues

'Variability' implies that changes are normal within the context mentioned.

Expect Changes

Variability can suggest unpredictability, which isn't always desired or positive.

Not Always Welcome

'Variability' in statistics refers to the diversity of data points around an average value.

Data Variety

In statistics, 'variability' measures how spread out numbers are in a data set.

Measure of Spread

'Variability' can highlight an object's or system's ability to change when needed.

Capability to Adapt

Using 'variability' can describe something that is not fixed and can adjust easily.

Flexible Nature

 it's extremely noisy. Forget about trying to hit the bull's eye in darts, just aim for the same spot over and over again. You have a huge spread due to movement variability. And more than that, the outside world, or task, is both ambiguous and variable. The teapot could be full, it could be empty. It changes over time.

Daniel Wolpert: The real...

 you put motor output on movement output it's extremely noisy forget if I try to hit the bull's eye and ask just aim for the same spot over and over again you have a huge spread due to movement variability and more than that the outside world or task was both ambiguous and variable that teapot could be full

The real reason for...

 works we want to know how your cancer is different from my cancer i guess my cancer is different from your cancer we're interested in genetics has opened the door to the study of human variability what howard moskowitz was doing was saying this same revolution needs to happen in the world of tomato sauce

On spaghetti sauce -...

 you know what happens is disparities grow, and you can see this bubble moving slightly to the other direction, but still, an impressive improvement. A major overhaul of Poland's education helped to dramatically reduce between variability among schools, turn around many of the lowest-performing schools,

Andreas Schleicher: Use...

 It's a very important period -- it's roughly half the period when we've been fully modern humans on the planet. We've had the same, roughly, abilities that developed civilizations as we know it. This is the environmental conditions on the planet. Here, used as a proxy, temperature variability.

Let the environment...

 the sound in order to measure that process of ice melting when the sound gets louder there's more ice melting when the sound gets quieter there's less ice melting and over the course of time through days and weeks and over a year there is some natural variability in

The warning sounds of a...

 timescales that things may occur and you know the sensitivity of the climate system so anything that helps us record variability of the past is a step toward better understanding the future well you know I know that we could go and go and

Mapping the Unknown,...

 And secondly, could the puzzling observations of solar climate variability in the pre-industrial climate be explained by an influence of galactic cosmic rays on clouds? Ambitious but realistic goals when your head's in the clouds.

Cloudy climate change:...

 playing out to differing degrees in different animals that explains the variability we see in the animal kingdom. So what about us? Humans currently have an average life expectancy of 71 years,

Why do animals have such...

 the woods for thousands of hours now I never get bored of it the trouble is learning enough that it's harder to answer questions I thought I knew a lot but as I see all the variability I