Sciences
- Variety (botany), a formal rank in botanical taxonomic nomenclature
- Variety (cybernetics), the number of possible states of a system or of an element of the system
- Variety (linguistics), a concept that includes, for instance, dialects, standard language and jargon
- Plant variety (law), a legal rather than taxonomic term for a cultivar or hybrid protected by patent law
- "Variety", an informal (and incorrect and ambiguous) rather than taxonomic term for cultivar in horticulture
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“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)