The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes:… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.” — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
![“And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.” quote by Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01e/niles-eldredge-44808_adaptive_and-it-has-been-the-paleontologist-my-ow_1588685.jpg)
