Acceleration Quote by Ernst Mayr

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed…

— Ernst Mayr

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

— Stephen Jay Gould

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

— Richard Dawkins

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual…

— Ernst Mayr

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous…

— Niles Eldredge

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

— Charles Darwin

Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and…

— William Bateson

No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed…

— Lynn Margulis

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil record is…

— Ernst Mayr

“For evolution to be true, there would have been innumerable transitional forms between different types of creatures. Therefore, for every known fossil species, many…

— Jonathan Sarfati