Ernst Mayr Quotes

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

Ernst Mayr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 5, 1904 - February 3, 2005

Topics

ChangeEvolutionTwoIgnoringFact

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Jim Fowler

LifeQualityWildernessImportant

Having the facility to have this multitrack at home, I could try experiments with sort of all of the instruments, giving them different treatments so they didn't actually sound, necessarily, like the instrument itself.

Jimmy Page

HomeGivingTrySoundExperiments

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.

Melanie Scrofano

PeopleTryingSeenSomethingGet

I'm something of a black belt at break-ups. I have had two long-term relationships in my life, both of 10 years, both resulting in children, and both very much over. Things end. It is how you manage them being over that's key.

John Niven

LifeChildrenBlackKeyEndMy Life

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

John Lennon

GodSkyManPeopleBelieveRest

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

Anita Desai

PeopleThinkTryingIndiaWayWrite

I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!

Steve Capus

FamilyDriveGuitarNutsSomething

The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially when their financial model is built around that . With the music industry, everybody is starting to understand that doesn't begin with a piece of music.

Troy Carter

MusicValuePeopleListeningArtist

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Toni Braxton

MusicFashionWillChangesOldSame

I love Safadao; it is an honor to be compared.

Roberto Firmino

LoveHonorI LoveCompared

The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.

Mike Rowe

LifeHeroPeopleDoingYouBad

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

Mitch Albom

LifeWorkLiveDayThinkYou

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