It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, am…

- George Gaylord Simpson

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

- George Gaylord Simpson

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 …

- George Gaylord Simpson

The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous…

- George Gaylord Simpson

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of li…

- George Gaylord Simpson

Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise…

- George Gaylord Simpson

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

The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think it is oft…

- George Gaylord Simpson

It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of famili…

- George Gaylord Simpson