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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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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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
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When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.
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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
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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.
