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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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Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
— Christian Bale
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
— A. K. Antony
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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…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no…
— Carl Jung
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A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.
— Malcolm X
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No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines…
— George C. Marshall
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There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes…
— Amory Lovins
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I'm not…
— Mads Mikkelsen
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The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromise.
— Yasser Arafat
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