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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
«No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
contingent, contingent on, genealogical, natural history, natural order, Order of, pathway, pathways, rational, species, The Natural, unites
«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Revolution,
Science
| Keywords:
arrogance, centrality, convictions, cosmos, dethronement, feature, include, pedestal, pedestals, previous, revolutions, scientific
«We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
accidents, complexity, construction, constructions, evolutionary, expected, glorious, mode, unpredictable, yearn
«Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
domination, equate, equated, extended, intrinsic, prospects, superiority, survival, tempted, The Mirror, transient
«Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
debate, discussing, eighteen, finite, Finite number, infinite number, nonsense, pin, theologian, theologians, The Standard
«Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
denial, extensive, falsely, identified, imposed, injustices, stunt, stunted, stunting, tragedies
«The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
ink, inscribe, oblivion, once-over, scholarship, telephone, telephone wire, wire
«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.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
«Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured - never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould