Ernst Mayr Quotes
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
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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.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
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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.
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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.
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
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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.
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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.
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We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.
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I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.
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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.
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A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.
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Apparently you’re not allowed to have helicopters fly over big crowds in case they fall out of the sky and start mincing up. Which is fair enough, I suppose.
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And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
