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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 farther, or he…

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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…
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human…
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An…
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level…
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or…
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually…
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for…
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because…
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
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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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the… — Alphonsus Liguori
Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose… — Ayn Rand
You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him,… — Saint John Chrysostom
You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives… — Jill Eikenberry
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man… — Charles Ives
There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single… — Carl Jung
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand
He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as… — George Bernard Shaw
Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to… — Elwyn Brooks White
The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current… — Karen Kingsbury

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