Quote by Stephen Jay Gould Download Open image “Is uniformitarianism necessary?” — Stephen Jay Gould ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of… — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.” — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive. — Anonymous 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
