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George Gaylord Simpson has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still…
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The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human…
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If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An…
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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…
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I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
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It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or…
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The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.
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The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually…
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To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for…
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Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because…
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Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
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Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if…
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
— Edward Abbey
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It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human…
— A.C. Grayling
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Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
— Andy Van Slyke
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first…
— Harrison Schmitt
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other…
— Alan Valentine
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
— Huston Smith
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.…
— Peter Kreeft
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Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for…
— Mick Dodson
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I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature.…
— Nolan Gould
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Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.
— Diane Keaton
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I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors…
— Holly Marie Combs
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I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought…
— Ani DiFranco
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