Noun
The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.
A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA musician would not willingly consent that his lyre should be out of tune, nor a leader of a chorus that his chorus should not sing in the strictest possible harmony; but shall each individual person be at variance with himself, and shall he exhibit a life not at all in agreement with his words? Basil of Caesarea
Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance. Jonathan Swift
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. Ronald Fisher
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything. Jack Welch
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form : The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time. Ronald Fisher