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The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our text- books have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. Yet Darwin was so wedded to gradualism that he wagered his entire theory on a denial of this literal record: Darwin's argument still persists as the favored e..
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This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.
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History is also a hard taskmaster, for she covers her paths by erasing so much evidence from her records--
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If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
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Useful quantification is so often the key to fruitful science.
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Few campaigns are more dangerous than emotional calls for proscription rather than thought.
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Yesterday's seer is today's bore.
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Stephen Jay Gould |
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The beauty of nature lies in detail; the message, in generality.
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Stephen Jay Gould |
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C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.
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Stephen Jay Gould |
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Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.
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Stephen Jay Gould |
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Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.
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We cannot overcome obstacles with ignorance.
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A proper theory of morality depends upon the separation of intentions from results.
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Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
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