"The dogmatist within is always worse than the…" — Stephen Jay Gould

"The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without."

— Stephen Jay Gould

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156 Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould has 156 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it… — Sherwood Anderson
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. — Jane Austen
The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be. — Dorothy Parker
I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected. — Henry James
No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse. — M. Stanton Evans
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor,… — Maxim Gorky
Its always worse than it seems. — SangFroid Stalker

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