We see, in the vastness of geologic time, events that bear superficial similarity to phenomena of local populations — and we assign a similar cause [to these events] without realizing that the extended time itself precludes such an application.


The Promise of Paleobiology as a Nomothetic, Evolutionary Discipline, Paleobiology, Volume 5, 1980

Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

We see, in the vastness of geologic time, events that bear superficial similarity to phenomena of local populations — and we assign a similar cause ...

We see, in the vastness of geologic time, events that bear superficial similarity to phenomena of local populations — and we assign a similar cause ...

We see, in the vastness of geologic time, events that bear superficial similarity to phenomena of local populations — and we assign a similar cause ...

We see, in the vastness of geologic time, events that bear superficial similarity to phenomena of local populations — and we assign a similar cause ...