George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution (1944), The meaning of evolution (1949) and The major features of evolution (1953).

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

- George Gaylord Simpson

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

- George Gaylord Simpson

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"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."

- George Gaylord Simpson

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"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."

- George Gaylord Simpson

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