"Man is the result of a purposeless and……" — George Gaylord Simpson
"Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind"
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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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Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive…
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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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