Ernst Mayr Quotes
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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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.
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To err from the right path is common to mankind.
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Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
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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.
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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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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.
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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.
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The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.
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At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!
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There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.
