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Outcome Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that…
- 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…
More Outcome Quotes
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the… — Annie Besant
- I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is… — Sara Blakely
- My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have… — Sara Blakely
- Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is. — Abdallah II
- The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been… — George W. Bush
- I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a… — Charisma Carpenter
- The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion… — Nick Cave
- Good government is the outcome of private virtue. — John Jay Chapman
- For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If… — Jarvis Cocker