Ernst Mayr Quotes
Anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.
Ernst Mayr
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Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.
Mark Zupan
You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.
David O. Russell
The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.
Muhammad Ali
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
William Hazlitt
His father was a post player; he's a skill player. He can play multiple positions, and he can shoot the basketball.
J. M. Roberts
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
Adolf Hitler
I'll teach you differences.
William Shakespeare
Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?
Sigmund Freud
All dreams of the soul
End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
William Butler Yeats
I'm certainly not worried about the play-calling, ... I know we can move the ball. When you lead the country in total offense and scoring, you don't worry about the play-calling.
Bobby Petrino
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.
Alan I. Leshner
That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.
L. M. Boyd
