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Ernst Mayr has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be…
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist…
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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual…
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as…
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems.…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…
— Sigmund Freud
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Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to…
— Karl Popper
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores…
— Ernst Mayr
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Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation…
— John Rawls
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
— Immanuel Kant
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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the…
— George Orwell
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection ½ that one is prepared in the end to be…
— George Orwell
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