George G. Simpson Quotes

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

  George G. Simpson

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

  George G. Simpson

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• 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 G. Simpson

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• Darwin (1859) 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 G. Simpson

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

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• 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 G. Simpson

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

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

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• Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.

   

  George G. Simpson

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• 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.

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• 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 G. Simpson

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

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• Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

  George G. Simpson

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Recognition, Universe

• 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.

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George G. Simpson (14)

Birth:	16th June, 1902
Death:	6th October, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Paleontologist

About

George Gaylord Simpson was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American paleontologist. He was a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution, The meaning of evolution and The major features of evolution. He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. He coined the word hypodigm in 1940, and published extensively on the taxonomy of fossil and extant mammals. He studied Physics, meteorology and Astronomy in Berlin, Heidelberg and Innsbruck. He obtained a doctorate in astronomy in 1905 based on a dissertation written under the supervision of Julius Bauschinger at Friedrich Wilhelms University, Berlin.

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