"It seems to me that for Darwin the……" — Ernst Mayr
"It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon."
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43 Quotes by Ernst Mayr
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object…
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More Darwin Quotes
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against…
— Michael Bloomberg
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If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number…
— Kirk Cameron
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human…
— Friedrich Engels
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how…
— Karl Pearson
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt,…
— Alexander McQueen
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,…
— Karl Popper
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The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say,…
— Francis Darwin
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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
— Richard Dawkins
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea…
— Daniel Dennett
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