Ernst Mayr Quotes
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.Ernst Mayr
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
Hansie Cronje -
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
Angela Davis -
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
Oscar Wilde -
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.
Quentin S. Crisp -
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
Rick Pitino -
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Vladimir Lenin
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare -
As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union on how to resolve the Ivorian conflict.
Abdoulaye Wade -
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
Wim Wenders -
We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.
Dave Mustaine Metallica -
I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
William Faulkner -
Kindness unlocks many doors.
Katrina Mayer -
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
Jose Rizal -
The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer, as have the relationships that connect different theoretical approaches.
Elliott Sober -
We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.
Terence McKenna -
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
Ernst Mayr