Accident Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never heard of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes…

— Lara St. John

Excellence is never an accident.

— Jerold Panas

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay…

— Mark Strand

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male…

— Alan King

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

— James Luther Adams

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

— Brian Aldiss

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

— Pietro Metastasio

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out…

— Walter Kirn

There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing…

— Paul Virilio