Ernst Mayr Men Quotations

The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself, of change over periods of time: in a word, of evolution.

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

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.