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> [It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student…have now been debunked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/it-must-be-significant-that-nearly-all-the-evolutionary-stories-i/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

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## More by D. V. Ager

> [Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/experts-always-tend-to-obscure-the-obvious/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/palaeontologists-cannot-live-by-uniformitarianism-alone-this-may-be/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/it-may-be-said-of-many-palaeontologists-as-professor-hugh-trevor/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/in-the-preface-to-his-great-history-of-europe-h-a-l-fisher-wrote-men/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/changes-cyclic-or-otherwise-within-the-solar-system-or-within-our/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/sedimentation-in-the-past-has-often-been-very-rapid-indeed-and-very/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/in-fact-books-are-still-being-published-by-the-lunatic-fringe-with/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student…have now been debunked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/it-must-be-significant-that-nearly-all-the-evolutionary-stories-i/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/let-us-make-an-arbitrary-decision-by-a-show-of-hands-if-necessary-to/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

> [Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-v-ager/though-the-theories-of-plate-tectonics-now-provide-us-with-a-modus/)

[D. V. Ager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-v-ager/)

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