In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was … - Ernst Mayr

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We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

Ernst Mayr

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

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Evolution. . . is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

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New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

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We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

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I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do. I don't respond to gossip.

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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand and depending in the long run on the natural rate of unemployment, with microeconomic policies like tariffs having little net effect. Trade policy should be debated in terms of its impact on efficiency, not in terms of phoney numbers about jobs created or lost.

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