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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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The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
— Todd Akin
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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians…
— John Henrik Clarke
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each…
— Peter Abrahams
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Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
— Unknown Author
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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
— Karl Marx
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The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,…
— Thomas Gray
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They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
— Bobby Fischer
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried…
— Abdul Kalam
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe,…
— Archibald MacLeish
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A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and…
— William J. Clinton
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The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior…
— Felix Frankfurter
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