George Gaylord Simpson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 16, 1902 - October 6, 1984

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In 'The Humans,' there's a gay character, and the fact that she's gay is probably the least interesting thing about her.

Joe Mantello

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The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

John Burnside

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I'm accustomed to being harassed.

Maxine Waters

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I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

Matt Ridley

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Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I really love writing themes and melody.

Trevor Rabin

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My father was in the army, and you know not to talk about things on the telephone that you wouldn't want to hear transmitted.

Tom Parker Bowles

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I have lost every respect for U.S. justice. The judgment by the Supreme Court and the other, even more absurd judgment by a New York circuit court deciding that Iran should pay damages for 9/11 are the height of absurdity.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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Remind yourself that other people's jobs aren't so simple.

Jason Fried

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I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

Dick York

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I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

Drew Barrymore

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I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Claude Chabrol

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