Ernst Mayr Quotes

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Ernst Mayr

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• I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Day
  • Everyday

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • People
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

  Barack Obama
  • You
  • Stop
  • Over

• I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Job
  • Know

• The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Understanding
  • Road
  • Training

• I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Great
  • Love
  • Perfect

• The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Good
  • Society
  • Reality

• If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Inspired

• Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Real
  • Science

• My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

  

  Tyne Daly
  • Time

• My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • Writing
  • Family
  • May

• Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Good

• I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Science
  • Learning
  • Hero

• The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces?

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Life
  • Science
  • Perfect

• And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.

  

  Charles Nicolle
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Science

• People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Life
  • Film

• Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Grammar