Ernst Mayr Quotes

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

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
  • War
  • Future
  • Vision

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Ideas
  • Parenting

• I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Kids
  • Focus
  • Now

• Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

  

  Leon Edel
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Control

• 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
  • People
  • America
  • Jesus

• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fashion
  • Values
  • Clothes

• Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers...

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • People
  • Trust
  • Never

• What is fruitful alone is true.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • True
  • Fruitful

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Man
  • Progress

• Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Language
  • Opportunities
  • Mastery

• We took more resources into the plan than we probably needed to. As we go forward, we'll probably pull that out.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Plan
  • Resources
  • Needed

• For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.

  

  Cat Power
  • Moments
  • Reason
  • Impossible

• The sky paled to green, a few stars looked out faintly, a light twinkled in the solitary house on Vilm, and the waiter came down and asked if he should bring a lamp. A lamp! As though all one ever wanted was to see the tiny circle round oneself, to be able to read the evening paper, or write postcards to one’s friends, or sew. I have a peculiar capacity for doing nothing and yet enjoying myself.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Friends
  • House
  • Circle

• Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Evolution
  • Selection
  • Darwin