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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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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for…
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The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side,…
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I either play cops or criminals - I'm either on the right side of the law or the wrong side. I gravitate…
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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's…
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is…
— Imogen Cunningham
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It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and…
— Anna Louise Strong
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Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on…
— Casey Stengel
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The National Football league is on the wrong side of history,
— Tom Cole
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My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of…
— Dick Cheney
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She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
— Jonathan Swift
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