Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
The fact – not theory – that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
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. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. George Gaylord Simpson Read Quote
