Individual Quote by Ernst Mayr

There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

— Ernst Mayr

“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard…

— Ernst Mayr

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory…

— Ernst Mayr

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

— Ernst Mayr

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.

— Ernst Mayr

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational…

— Ernst Mayr

In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me…

— Ernst Mayr

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

— Ernst Mayr

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

— Ernst Mayr

A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which…

— Ernst Mayr

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of…

— Ernst Mayr

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

— Ernst Mayr