Tiny Changes Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

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• 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…
• 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…
• Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a…
• Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for…
• But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far…
• ... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

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