Ernst Mayr Quotes

Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.

Ernst Mayr

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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

Barbara Boxer
- God
- Said
- Thank God
My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

Rafe Spall
- Up
- World
- Men
The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

Yulia Tymoshenko
- Eyes
- Stage
- Old
I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

Olivia Colman
- People
- Life
- Good
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

Haile Gebrselassie
- Country
- Money
- Want
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Vera Brittain
- Up
- She
- Reading