Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

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.

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

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

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.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

My friends are a crayola box. They highlight different colors of my being, representing different aspects of my personalty, I've noticed.

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.