"Scientific progress consists in the development of new……" — Ernst Mayr

"Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts."

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43 Quotes by Ernst Mayr

Ernst Mayr has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they…
I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as…
Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any…
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population…
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if…
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms…
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object…

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products… — Hans Bender
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal… — Dan Brown
Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then… — H. Rap Brown
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill
If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity.… — Tony Campolo
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from… — Tadao Ando
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and… — Warren E. Burger
Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born… — James A. Baldwin
I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. — Byron Katie
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to… — Robert Foster Bennett

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