Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Stephen Jay Gould
American Scientist
Born: Sep 10, 1941
Died: May 20, 2002
Evolution Life People Science Think Time
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
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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