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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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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
— Hermann Hesse
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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions…
— Russell Lynes
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It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
— Klemens von Metternich
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I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't…
— Robert Kirkman
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I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way.…
— Dorothy Height
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We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female…
— Kathy Acker
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But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even…
— Steven Pressfield
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the…
— Leon Edel
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When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
— Cullen Hightower
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily…
— Laurence Sterne
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It's upsetting to me that so many people think of themselves as environmentalists and still eat meat and dairy products. I think…
— Emily Deschanel
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School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job…
— Austin Kleon
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