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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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I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of…
— David Attenborough
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Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
— Paula Abdul
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One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are…
— Jim Cymbala
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It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
— Brett Hull
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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
— Peter Benchley
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But…
— Anton Chekhov
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds…
— Bertrand Russell
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For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species…
— Douglas Adams
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
— Fred Allen
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It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to…
— Geronimo
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