[Michael_Michaelangelo]

The success of Darwinism was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity. ... To establish the continuity required by the theory, historical arguments are invoked even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypotheses based on hypotheses, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion ... where deficiencies of the data were patched up with hypotheses, and the reader is left with the feeling that if the data do not support the theory they really ought to.”

– Dr. W. R. Thompson, Canadian entomologist, in the introduction to the 1956 reprint of Darwin’s Origin of Species.

[Dimensio]

Additional context for Thompson's quote.

Unfortunately, every site that reproduces his quote does not reproduce it in full context, so there's no way to really examine what he's saying.

[whattajoke]

We should propose a CREVO thread rule about quotes rife with ellipses.