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Activity Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not…
- Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
- Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.
- 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.
More Activity Quotes
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister
- Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. — Dave Barry
- To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. — Martha Beck
- If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. — Alan Bennett
- The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. — Andrea Bocelli
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker
- Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. — Edward de Bono
- Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges
- I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't;… — Jo Brand
- Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last… — Jacob Bronowski
- Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you… — Bill Bryson