Ernst Mayr Quotes

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

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• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Woman
  • Assured
  • 21st Century

• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Game
  • Change
  • Emotions

• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nature
  • Justice

• I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Family
  • Taken
  • Feminism

• Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Active
  • Environments
  • Classrooms

• When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

  

  Lois McMaster

• Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she Eleanor Roosevelt ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Wonder

• We want to get to the World Series, ... It's all about the World Series. Hopefully, it's meant to be for us. We don't know yet.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Want
  • Meant To Be
  • World Series

• The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Mountain
  • Coming
  • Liberated

• It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics. As all of the “20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer. I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission.

  

  Terrence J
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Mean

• I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Kept
  • Rats
  • Mice

• If we cannot find 'patient zero' then it means the virus is even more ubiquitous than we thought.

  

  Luca Zaia
  • VIrus
  • Patient Zero
  • Ubiquitous

• Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Future
  • Decisions
  • Possible

• If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World

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

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Biology
  • Rats