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"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."
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"Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission."
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"To know your purpose, you have to find yourself."
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"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."
"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned."
"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."
"Darwin (1859) 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."
"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
"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."
"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."
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