Accounts 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

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...

— Stephen Jay Gould

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too…

— David Pilbeam

Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples…

— Niles Eldredge

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was…

— Richard Dawkins

In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some…

— D. V. Ager

“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to do with…

— Jerry A. Coyne

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

We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make…

— Errol White