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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.

George Gaylord Simpson

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

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

George Gaylord Simpson

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

George Gaylord Simpson

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

George Gaylord Simpson

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

Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.

George Gaylord Simpson

Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

George Gaylord Simpson

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

George Gaylord Simpson

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

George Gaylord Simpson

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

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

George Gaylord Simpson

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