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Predictable Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
- Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps…
- Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater…
- We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any…
More Predictable Quotes
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins
- I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about… — Michael Kirby
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's… — Mario Batali
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying,… — Bill Bradley
- Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end… — Mary McCarthy
- I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when… — Donald Rumsfeld