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" Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. "

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" The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Evolution

Confused

Become

" I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Them

Whales

Reason

" Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Then

Against

Evidence

" Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Him

Process

Planned

" I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Loyalty

Best

Debt

" Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Man

Universe

Talent

" Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Never

Small

" Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Transition

Discovery

Almost

" Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Time

Different

Degrees

" He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Material

Matter

Animal

" Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Family

New

" Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. "

George Gaylord Simpson

Well

Very

Variety