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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• 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.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Want
  • Listening

• I'm not big on remakes.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Big

• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Why
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• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  

  Al Stewart
  • Time
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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.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Work
  • Mad

• 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.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Long
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• I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.

  

  Margaret Murray
  • People

• 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.

  

  Kimi Raikkonen
  • People
  • motivation

• I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Drake Bell
  • People
  • Music
  • Learning

• I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

  

  Martha Washington
  • Experience

• My name is more important than myself.

  

  Pierre Cardin
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fear

• Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • History
  • Perfect

• My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

  

  Lindsey Haun
  • Music
  • Mother

• I woke up one morning to an email from my friend Alex that said she'd had her bag stolen. Ordinarily, I'm quite quick on the uptake, but - maybe because of the way it was worded - I immediately replied, 'What??????' As soon as I hit send, I realised I was being scammed. But then they replied, and I thought, 'Well, why not?'

  

  James Veitch
  • Up
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• When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Father

• For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

  

  Kamala Markandaya
  • World
  • Men
  • Money

• Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Head
  • Feet
  • Window

• When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor... and the rest is history!

  

  Lex Luger
  • History
  • Rest
  • Broken

• Loose ideas on the subject of business will not answer. It must be reduced to something of a science. It has its principles, upon a knowledge and an application of which, success in it mainly depends.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Business
  • Success
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • History
  • Science
  • Theory