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Humans Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
- The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
- Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and…
- Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant…
- Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
- But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can…
- I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we…
- Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the…
- Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
- 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…
- 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…
- Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.
- 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…
- Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they…
- Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history…
- Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one…
- 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…
More Humans Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong