Aids Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more…

— David M. Raup

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous…

— Niles Eldredge

“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,…

— Gareth J. Nelson

“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil record is…

— Ernst Mayr

“The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.”

— Carl Sagan

“Charles Darwin, whose theory changed the whole current of the world's thought, was not a great reader of books, but a careful observer of…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“CONTRARY TO THE COMMON ASSUMPTION , Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the mere…

— Daniel Quinn

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this,…

— Kenneth R. Miller

It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more…

— Fred Hoyle

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories…

— Anonymous

“The fossil record quietly accounts for me...”

— Donald Revell