George Gaylord Simpson Quote

The history of life ceases to be hypothesis and inference and becomes direct knowledge when fossils are available.


Life: An Introduction to Biology, Chapter 29 (p. 756), Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1965


The history of life ceases to be hypothesis and inference and becomes direct knowledge when fossils are available.

The history of life ceases to be hypothesis and inference and becomes direct knowledge when fossils are available.

The history of life ceases to be hypothesis and inference and becomes direct knowledge when fossils are available.

The history of life ceases to be hypothesis and inference and becomes direct knowledge when fossils are available.