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.

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no....

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

Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to....

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

[Darwin] gave an answer to the tremendous question that so deeply concerns...What is Man? [He] answered....

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....