George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist.
Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century,...
Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal. George Gaylord Simpson
Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. George Gaylord Simpson
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
White cats do not denigrate black, and dogs do not ask Baal, Jehovah, or other Semitic gods to perform miracles for them. George Gaylord Simpson
White cats do not denigrate black, and dogs do not ask Baal, Jehovah, or other Semitic gods to perform miracles for them.
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. George Gaylord Simpson
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone.
Other species doubtless have much more limited ideas about the world, but what ideas they do have are much less likely to be wrong and are never foolish. George Gaylord Simpson
Other species doubtless have much more limited ideas about the world, but what ideas they do have are much less likely to be wrong and are never foolish.
In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed. George Gaylord Simpson
In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.
It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, among many other things, the mistaken animal, the foolish animal. George Gaylord Simpson
It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, among many other things, the mistaken animal, the foolish animal.
The ethical need and its fulfillment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone. George Gaylord Simpson
The ethical need and its fulfillment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone.
