George simpson

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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 G. Simpson

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

George G. Simpson

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 G. Simpson

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

George G. Simpson

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

George G. Simpson

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

George Harrison

Better never begin than never make an end.

George Herbert

If man does his best what else is there?

George S. Patton

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

George Herbert

"That's the problem with tradition, it's always dated.

Curt George Siffert

'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

(Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

George Orwell

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

George MacDonald

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

George Bernard Shaw

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

George Bernard Shaw

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

George Bush

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

George Jean Nathan

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana