Quotes by : George Gaylord Simpson

If I didn't fear I'd do you harm...I'd try to make you an atheist. I really do think that you are a deluded....

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all....

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.

From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about....

I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because....

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch....

Man is a glorious and unique species of animal. The species originated by evolution.... Future evolution....

The question “What is man?” is probably the most profound that can be asked by man. It has always....

The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition....

Over and over again in the study of the history of life it appears that what can happen does happen.....