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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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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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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You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
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I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.
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If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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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.
