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George Gaylord Simpson foi um paleontólogo e biólogo teórico estadunidense.

✵ 16. Junho 1902 – 6. Outubro 1984
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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!”

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Simpson in: Elie Alexis Shneour (1966) Extraterrestrial Life: An Anthology and Bibliography. p. 269

“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.”

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Splendid Isolation (1980) New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 38

“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.”

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Cited in: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250

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

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George Gaylord Simpson (1967) The Meaning of Evolution, revised edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 345.