Doe Quote by George Gaylord Simpson Download Open image “It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny” — George Gaylord Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Funny Inspirational Love Recapitulation Repeats
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent,… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.” — David Kitts Copy Share Image
The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution i.e., a species becoming a new species accomplishing a major morphological… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is,… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
