John Grierson

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

British Director

Oneohtrix Point Never

I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It's not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for vague stories.

American Musician

Alex Garland

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.

British Novelist

Jane Mayer

Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.

American Journalist

John Ratcliffe

China believes that a global order without it at the top is a historical aberration. It aims to change that and reverse the spread of liberty around the world.

Geoff Mulgan

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

English Educator

John Hickenlooper

We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.

American Politician

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

American Baseball Player

Remy de Gourmont

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

French Novelist

Anatole France

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Used when something unusual happens that does not reflect the regular pattern or behavior.

Uncommon Occurrence

Often implies a negative or unwanted deviation from the norm.

Negative Surprise

An aberration doesn't usually indicate a long-term change.

Not Predictive

Highlights a flaw in equipment or processes in technical and scientific contexts.

Technical Error

A technical aberration can affect the outcome or data quality in experiments or measurements.

Impact on Results

Refers to an optical issue affecting clarity and quality of sight.

Vision Distortion

Medical context involving the eye; not used for general health issues.

Medical Terminology

 But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity. What's interesting about this experiment is that it's not an aberration. This has been replicated over and over again

The puzzle of motivation...

 Angeles police say the incident was not racially motivated but the black community is not buying that about 300 members of the n-double a-c-p marched on police headquarters today this is an aberration this is something that should never have happened we had in place all of the procedures

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 How has it changed you? Well, I think it did remove any sense of that I had that the universe is a meaningless, cold place. I think it gave a kind of foundation of meaning for me. And I think the idea of was it a revelation or was it just an aberration in the brain?

Medical Reason for...

 and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life

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 retina of its primary eye one of the layers contained a green sensitive pigment despite the fact that this layer does not focus green light the researchers say because of chromatic aberration of the lens the D focus is larger under red light and under red

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 emulated and which when we talk about women they are either exceptions to be dismissed or aberrations to be ignored and finally there is no society anywhere in all the world that has not changed except by its most exceptional so why

Women entrepreneurs,...

 though theirs are pure white. The gray catbird, on the other hand, is an expert at rooting out the very same parasites. It memorizes what the first egg in its nest looks like, which is usually its own, and tosses any aberrations.

Would you raise the bird...

 think it's a great advantage to be a woman in this job I think people assume that it's a disadvantage and I just think you're less threatening you're more of an aberration and most importantly for me in in gender divided

A Camera, Two Kids and a...

 icons or pioneers or innovators to be emulated. And when we talk about women, they are either exceptions to be dismissed or aberrations to be ignored. And finally, there is no society anywhere in all the world

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 So the past 200 years of world history have therefore been a major historical aberration. All aberrations come to a natural end and this is what we are seeing. And if you look at chart two,

Aberration