Quotes by : George Gaylord Simpson

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

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....

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....

Among the things most characteristic of organisms--most distinctive of living as opposed to inorganic....

The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause. It is the designation as religiously....

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