Stephen Jay Gould ✓

(1941–2002) evolutionary biologist

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[Wikidata] American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)... | [Wikipedia] Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and one of the most widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New Yor

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• The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human… Biological
• We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any… Accidental
• The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material… Change
• Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. Acting
• No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. Along
• The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions… All

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