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One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who…

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Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biologyâ€™s last twenty…
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand…
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's…
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks…
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said…
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.…
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary…

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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge
A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire… — Diana Gabaldon

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