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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent Picture Quote #1

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within Picture Quote #1

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, it's geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors Picture Quote #1

The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the liberal rhetoric of equal time. But mistake it not Picture Quote #1

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan Picture Quote #1

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War Picture Quote #1

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As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference Picture Quote #1

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth Picture Quote #1

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years Picture Quote #1

Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right Picture Quote #1

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history Picture Quote #1

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious Picture Quote #1

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The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning Picture Quote #1

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis Picture Quote #1

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity Picture Quote #1

If I could have those sixty seconds within Bradypus... Would I not receive a plea for humans to pause, reassess - and above all, slow down? Picture Quote #1

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion Picture Quote #1

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light Picture Quote #1

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I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized Picture Quote #1

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal Picture Quote #1

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition Picture Quote #1

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense Picture Quote #1

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival Picture Quote #1

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty Picture Quote #1

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The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis Picture Quote #1

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question Picture Quote #1

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown Picture Quote #1

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops Picture Quote #1

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields Picture Quote #1

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner Picture Quote #1

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Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, it's geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the liberal rhetoric of equal time. But mistake it not (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) If I could have those sixty seconds within Bradypus... Would I not receive a plea for humans to pause, reassess - and above all, slow down? (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes) The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner (Stephen Jay Gould Quotes)

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