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George Gaylord Simpson Quotes

1902–1984 United States

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution (1944), The meaning of evolution (1949) and The major features of evolution (1953).

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Random George Gaylord Simpson quote

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

George Gaylord Simpson (1967)

Exobiology - a curious development in view of the fact that this "science" has yet to demonstrate that its subject matter exists!

Simpson in: Elie Alexis Shneour (1966)

It is another aphorism that no ones knows everything about anything. That need not dull the pleasure and fascination of the fact that a great deal is known about some things.

Splendid Isolation (1980)

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

Edward J. Larson (2004)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Gaylord Simpson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.