Ernst Mayr Quotes

All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.

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• Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • You
  • Fool
  • Genius

• I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Role
  • News
  • Evening

• The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Winner

• And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Long
  • Women
  • Think

• I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Children
  • Day
  • Waiting

• My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • People
  • You
  • Best

• Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Never
  • Wear
  • Jeans

• Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Travel
  • Possible

• My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Long
  • Country
  • Pretty

• No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Couple

• Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Want
  • Technology
  • Apple

• will help activate the political mediation of the situation in that country with an active role of the United Nations.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Country
  • Help
  • Political

• Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• Rihanna, Beyonce and Nicki Minaj - we may not win, but we would have a lot of fun [in 4x400m relay team].

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Fun
  • Team

• Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Success
  • Way
  • Dirty

• Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Problem
  • Inquisitive

• THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Power
  • Perfect
  • Problem

• 'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Up
  • Together
  • Perfect

• All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Problem
  • Evidence
  • Scientist