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It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families,…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record…

— Anonymous

Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I…

— Stephen Jay Gould

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

— William Bridges

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

— David M. Raup

I was relying on a kind of natural transition - the transitions made by someone who is slightly deranged.

— Joan Didion

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

— Charles Darwin

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

— Thurgood Marshall

Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways.

— Rachel Joyce

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.

— Richard Paul Evans

Transitions are a time for reflection, and a time for looking forward.

— Roy Cooper