Ernst Mayr Quotes
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
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We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.
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I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
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There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.
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I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
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I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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My name is more important than myself.
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I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.
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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
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I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.
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My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
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Integration of races of totally disparate origins and culture is one of the great myths of our time. It has never worked throughout history. The United States lost its only real opportunity of solving its racial problem when it failed after the Civil War to partition the old Confederacy into a 'South Africa' and a 'Liberia'.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
