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> [“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/i-m-doing-now-with-cornets-exactly-what-i-used-to-do-with-trilobites/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

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## Other authors on Trilobites

## More by Niles Eldredge

> [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:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/the-observation-that-species-are-amazingly-conservative-and-static/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

> [One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/one-measure-of-the-greatness-of-a-work-is-that-the-characters-who/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/paleontologist-niles-eldredge-a-prominent-evolutionist-said-the-doubt/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/darwin-s-prediction-of-rampant-albeit-gradual-change-affecting-all/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

> [The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/the-expectations-of-theory-colour-perception-to-such-a-degree-that/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/and-it-has-been-the-paleontologist-my-own-breed-who-have-been-most/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

> [Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/paleontologists-ever-since-darwin-have-been-searching-largely-in-vain/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

> [If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/if-it-is-true-that-an-influx-of-doubt-and-uncertainty-actually-marks/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

> [“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/i-m-doing-now-with-cornets-exactly-what-i-used-to-do-with-trilobites/)

[Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/)

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