Ernst Mayr Quotes

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

Ernst Mayr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

Jo Beverley

LifeFamilyMarriageMoneyManBorn

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

Jess Walter

LoveBookProcessTryingYouFall

I love my business. I love my employees.

John Schnatter

LoveBusinessEmployeesI Love

The Lone Star Card will make food stamp coupons obsolete.

John Sharp

FoodWillStarMakeStampObsolete

Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics.

Amar'e Stoudemire

WatchingUpPlayerHeGrewShawn

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

I AmBodyDebateElectionMust

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.

Steven Gerrard

MomentDoubtBackThreeSquadTop

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

Simon Mainwaring

TimeSocial MediaTransformationMore

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

Mary Karr

MusicPoetryInformationMoreProse

People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did.

Mikaela Shiffrin

PeopleBelieveKnowWantHeroesDid

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

Diego Luna

TimeWarPeopleWishReactI Wish

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose.

Donovan

ArtSchoolBigExpandQuiteFew

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