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World Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.
- But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply…
- Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make…
- The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
- We pass through this world but once.
- The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world…
- Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways…
- 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…
- Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach