If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing today as it seldom has flourished in the past. For biologists collectively are less agreed… — 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 inflamed passions.' He spoke of the 'lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,' and added, 'things really are in an uproar these days . . . Sometimes it seems as though there are as… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share
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)
