Ernst Mayr Quotes About Society

Quotes about: Society

• Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

  Ernst Mayr

  Discovery, Understanding, Society

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.23, Harvard University Press

• Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

  Ernst Mayr

  Society, Life Is, Process

  "Plants: Diversity and Evolution". Book by Bill Eddie, p. 400, 2006.

• Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

  Ernst Mayr

  Atheism, Society, Earth

  Ernst Mayr (2007). “What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

• Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

  Ernst Mayr

  Society, Littles, Language

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.41, Harvard University Press

• anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.

  Ernst Mayr

  Writing, Society, Common

• Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

  Ernst Mayr

  Progress, Society, Development

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.43, Harvard University Press

• most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

  Ernst Mayr

  Society, Logic, Study

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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