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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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
Paddy Ashdown
In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
Patrick Whitesell
In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Nancy Roman
Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
Kate Forsyth
When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
Valerie June
You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
Hal Roach
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
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
James Anthony Froude
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass.
August Strindberg
Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
Frances McDormand
You're pale and you're cold, and you reek like steel.
Brenna Yovanoff
