"It is inherent in any definition of science……" — George Gaylord Simpson
"It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science."
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George Gaylord Simpson
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29 Quotes by George Gaylord Simpson
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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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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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Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive…
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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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