Skip to content

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

— George Gaylord Simpson Simpson in: Elie Alexis Shneour (1966)

Another quote →

Topics

Science

More quotes by George Gaylord Simpson

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

George Gaylord Simpson (1967)

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)

All George Gaylord Simpson quotes →

You may also like

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: George Gaylord Simpson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.