Quotes by George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson

…the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

Absence

Argument

Facts

A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

Erosion

Valleys

Years

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

Discovery

Transition

Unlikely

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth’s extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

Earth

Groups

Paleontology

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

Character

Decision

Science

I don’t know where to put whales. I’m sticking them here, but I don’t have any reason for it.

Knows

Reason

Whales

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

Debt

Loyalty

Museums

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect’s beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

Demand

Doe

Teacher

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

Definitions

Evolution

Observation

It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny

Doe

Recapitulation

Repeats

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Atheism

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Confused

Death

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Destiny

Discovery

Divergence

Doe

Dog

Earth

Erosion

Evolution

Evolution Of Man

Facts

Fire

Fossils

Gaps

Goal

Groups

Important

Knows

Law

Levels

Loyalty

Mean

Men

Mind

Mistake

Moving

Museums

Observation

Order

Paleontology

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Philosophy

Real

Reason

Recapitulation

Records

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Quotes by George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson

…the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth’s extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

I don’t know where to put whales. I’m sticking them here, but I don’t have any reason for it.

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect’s beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny

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