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Transitional Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
- The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data…
- Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional…
- Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do…
More Transitional Quotes
- It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level… — George Gaylord Simpson
- A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the… — Richard Tarnas
- Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden,… — Brian Froud
- But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really… — Katey Sagal
- Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin
- The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which… — Charles Darwin
- Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional… — Lester Bangs