Development Quote by Hugh Miller

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record…

— Anonymous

It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families,…

— George Gaylord Simpson

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire…

— William Buckland

There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest…

— Charles Lyell

The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates appear "suddenly"…

— Enoch

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.

— Robert Jastrow

Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave…

— Steven M. Stanley

Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

— Hannah Arendt

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as…

— Edward Forbes

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…

— Michael Shermer

Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I…

— Stephen Jay Gould