Ernst Mayr Quotes about Society

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Ernst Mayr Quotes about Society

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