Intellectual Inquiry Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

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Stephen Jay Gould has 158 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.
• In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,…
• Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and…
• Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures…
• Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.
• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to…
• Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.
• Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us.…
• Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

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