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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I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong.
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Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.
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Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.
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People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.
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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.