"Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom……" — George Gaylord Simpson
"Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it."
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29 Quotes by George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson has 29 quotes on this site.
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to…
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The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must…
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If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is…
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It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above…
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I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to…
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It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying…
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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…
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To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he…
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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…
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The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have…
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation…
— Julian Huxley
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Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety…
— Douglass North
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Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology,…
— Bob Ney
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its…
— Johan Huizinga
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The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on…
— Dick Morris
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless…
— Konrad Lorenz
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And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist…
— Niles Eldredge
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A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and…
— Jerry Sabloff
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United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.
— Adam Hartung
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At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've…
— Jesse James Garrett
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