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Stephen Jay Gould
 
Date of birth: 10 September 1941
Date of death: 20 May 2002
Country Of Origin: America
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" Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" 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. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" 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
" Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" 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
" 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
" The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" 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. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" 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. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" We pass through this world but once. "

Stephen Jay Gould
" When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. "

Stephen Jay Gould
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