If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing…

- Niles Eldredge

And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said th…

- Niles Eldredge

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for…

- Niles Eldredge

The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures …

- Niles Eldredge

One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to ha…

- Niles Eldredge

Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as …

- Niles Eldredge

The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's ne…

- Niles Eldredge

Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutiona…

- Niles Eldredge