Belief Quote by George Gaylord Simpson

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they…

— George Gaylord Simpson

A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

— George Gaylord Simpson

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

— George Gaylord Simpson

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

— George Gaylord Simpson

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a…

— George Gaylord Simpson

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

— George Gaylord Simpson

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

— George Gaylord Simpson

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or…

— George Gaylord Simpson

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

— George Gaylord Simpson

It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families,…

— George Gaylord Simpson