I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
George Gaylord SimpsonThe earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.
George Gaylord SimpsonThe 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 SimpsonAlmost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
George Gaylord Simpson