"The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the……" — Stephen Jay Gould

"The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning."

— Stephen Jay Gould

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156 Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

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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…
We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an…
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what…
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to…
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories…
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…
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…
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. — Heinz Pagels
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the… — Andre Maurois
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing. — Martial
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of… — Edgar Allan Poe

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