"Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting……" — George Gaylord Simpson
"Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal."
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George Gaylord Simpson
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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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Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
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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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More Adapting Quotes
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one of 87 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
— Joe Barton
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
— Samuel Butler
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
— Paula Abdul
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
— Jackie Chan
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
— William James
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The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able…
— Roger Bannister
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Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for…
— Unknown Author
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Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide…
— John Beddington
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John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our…
— Michael Palin
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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