Best Stephen Jay Gould Words
- Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds… Ago
- My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of… Adding
- 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… Arcane
- What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other… Adaptation
- We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for… Abjure
- Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways… All
- People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary… Adaptation
- 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… Brain
- Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work… Accomplishing
- Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. Agent
- Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. Devoutly
- Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. Current
- We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering,… Atheism
- Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail. Accurate
- The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought… Analogies
- No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased… Anywhere
- Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. Activity
- We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth… Africa
- In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted… Acts
- Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are… Always Done
- The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of… Answers
- Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is… Any
- Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted. Been
- Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional… Absence
- The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain… Accidental
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