Decent Quote by Stephen Jay Gould Download Open image “Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.” — Stephen Jay Gould ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decent Internals Keep learning Needs Writing
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably)… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good… — Howard Keel Copy Share Image
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup… — Romain Grosjean Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely… — Land ethic Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top… — Jerry Kramer Copy Share Image
