Dogmatism Quote by Stephen Jay Gould Download Open image “Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.” — Stephen Jay Gould ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dogmatism Dreams Failure Theory Tunnel vision Tunnels Vision
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That's because… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Dogmatism increases in direct proportion to a person's inability to prove a point.” — Donald J. Walters Copy Share Image
“That' the thing about theories. You can theorize all you want, but at the end of the day when you theories become reality, when… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“Theories are nets cast to catch what we call 'the world': to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the… — Karl Popper 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
The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary… — Henning von Tresckow Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that another existed… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense is a… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“There is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into ‘coteries’ where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion! — Moliere Copy Share Image
