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Stephen Jay Gould
American
Scientist
Born:
Sep 10
,
1941
Died:
May 20
,
2002
Evolution
Life
People
Science
Think
Time
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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Stephen Jay Gould
People
Political
Judgment
Tools
Hopes
Follow
Seeds
Merely
Learn
Sown
Manipulation
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
Time
Science
Physics
Tomorrow
Degree
Possibility
Would
Would-Be
Rise
Only
Classrooms
Fact
Merit
Suppose
Equal
Withhold
Does
Provisional
Confirmed
Mean
Might
Perverse
Assent
Apples
Start
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
Stephen Jay Gould
Science
Culture
Priesthood
Arcane
Part
Foreign
Tradition
Integral
Integral Part
Intellectual
Done
Human
Thing
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
Stephen Jay Gould
Creative
Science
Objective
More
Pursuit
Geniuses
Than
Heartless
Human
Artists
Human Activity
Information
Acting
Activity
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
Stephen Jay Gould
Death
Enemy
Light
Nothing
Rage
Those
Find
Ultimate
Dying
Against
Who
The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
Stephen Jay Gould
Needs
Important
Bone
Analysis
Our
Framework
Hopes
More
Likely
Subject
Err
Closer
Establishing
Cuts
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Stephen Jay Gould
Those
Evolution
Lies
Proof
Arise
Improbable
Foundations
Adaptation
I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.
Stephen Jay Gould
Me
Dreamed
Scared
General
Since
Particular
Becoming
Scientist
Skeleton
Ever
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.
Stephen Jay Gould
Time
History
Immediate
Prominence
Evolutionary
Minimum
Rise
Constraints
Through
Advantages
Equal
Imposed
Explaining
Adaptation
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.
Stephen Jay Gould
Time
Natural
Biology
Other
Evolutionary
Has-Been
About
Selection
Major
Odd
Been
Discovering
Natural Selection
Mechanisms
Each
Fundamentalist
Adaptation
People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.
Stephen Jay Gould
Time
Me
People
Think
Thousand
Minutes
Perceive
Give
My Time
Never
Another
Occurs
Five
Commodity
Just
Anything
Them
Asking
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