The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's… — Niles Eldredge Clothes 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.… — Niles Eldredge Action 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… — Niles Eldredge Agreement 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… — Niles Eldredge Change 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… — Niles Eldredge Arise 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… — Niles Eldredge Adaptive 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… — Niles Eldredge Age 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… — Niles Eldredge Biologist 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… — Niles Eldredge Biology Copy Share Image
