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 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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My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.
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'Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?''We won’t know until we try,' Naqi said. Any other answer would have been politically hazardous: too much optimism and the politicians would have started asking just why the expensive project was needed in the first place. Too much pessimism and they would ask exactly the same question.
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We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
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Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
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Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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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.
