Niles Eldredge: "Paleontolog Niles Eldredge, seorang evolusionis terke...

"Paleontolog Niles Eldredge, seorang evolusionis terkemuka, mengatakan: "Keraguan yang telah menyusupi kepastian sebelumnya yang meyakinkan tentang biologi evolusi selama dua puluh tahun terakhir telah menyulut hasrat." Dia berbicara tentang 'tidak adanya kesepakatan total bahkan di dalam kamp-kamp yang bertikai,' dan menambahkan, 'segalanya benar-benar dalam keributan akhir-akhir ini. . . Kadang-kadang sepertinya ada banyak variasi pada setiap tema [evolusi] seperti halnya ada ahli biologi individu. '"

--- Niles Eldredge

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed passions.' He spoke of the 'lack of total agreement even within the warring camps,' and added, 'things really are in an uproar these days . . . Sometimes it seems as though there are as many variations on each [evolutionary] theme as there are individual biologists.'