Astronomy Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

— Nathan Wolfe

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

— Sylvia Earle

Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from…

— Dean Koontz

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

— Stephen Jay Gould

In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

— Mark Boyle

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our…

— Stanley Kubrick

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce…

— Laura Esquivel

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

— Rachel Weisz

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

— Stanley Kubrick