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1. "Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

2. "Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

3. "Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

4. "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

5. "Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

6. "Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

7. "Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

8. "Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

9. "He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

10. "Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself." ~ George Gaylord Simpson

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