Ernst Mayr Quotes

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

Ernst Mayr

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• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

  

  Barton Gellman
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  • IRS

• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
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• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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• What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Things
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• I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Evidence

• My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Books
  • Evidence
  • Documentary

• In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Research
  • Evidence
  • Details

• We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Systems
  • Assume
  • Acceleration

• There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Evidence
  • Direct
  • Sat

• When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Long
  • Age

• We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Time
  • Art
  • True

• I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Evidence
  • Bubble
  • Equity

• The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Faith
  • Jesus
  • Lies

• The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

  

  August Krogh
  • Past
  • Red
  • Wonderful

• The most effective way to save endangered species is to protect the places they need to live.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Live
  • Way
  • Species

• We were really locked, ... Two or three people on each side had said 'I'm not budging. I've heard all the evidence. I'm not moving an inch.

  

  Charles Davenport
  • People
  • Moving
  • Evidence

• Whatever relevance such evidence may have to prove other elements of plaintiff's case, it does not have anything to do with the issues presented by the president's and Ferguson's motions for summary judgment. I.e., whether plaintiff herself was the victim of alleged quid pro quo or a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, whether the president and Ferguson conspired to deprive her of her civil rights, or whether she suffered emotional distress so severe in nature that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Work
  • May
  • She

• There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

  

  David Hillis
  • Science
  • Evidence
  • Absolutely

• One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Feelings

• hHave used it in a highly offensive way and drenched it in fallacious, right-wing “Christian nation” pseudohistory. Worse, they've sponsored “Christians only” prayer events that exclude millions of Americans. And by “Christians” they mean fundamentalists. Progressive Christians like me got nowhere near the microphone.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Prayer
  • Americans
  • Microphone

• I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Party
  • Leadership
  • Cancer

• The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Criticism
  • Judgment
  • Motion

• Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Evidence
  • Species
  • Reconstruction