Ernst Mayr Quotes

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

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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

• I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Feelings
  • Stage

• Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

  

  Mena Suvari
  • Waiting
  • Television
  • Scripts

• We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Opinion
  • Complex
  • Beings

• As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Waiting
  • Shoes
  • Economist

• Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • People
  • World
  • Different

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

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Evolution
  • Selection
  • Darwin