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Jay Gould Quotes: "Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology."

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races."

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.




Jay Gould Quotes: "If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it."

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.



Jay Gould Quotes: "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."

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.




Jay Gould Quotes: "Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right."

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Current utility and historical origin are different subjects."

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.



Jay Gould Quotes: "We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process."

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.




Jay Gould Quotes: "The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner."

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.



Jay Gould Quotes: "I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan."

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.



Jay Gould Quotes: "We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives."

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.



Jay Gould Quotes: "The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion"

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion



Jay Gould Quotes: "The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought."

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.




Jay Gould Quotes: "Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis."

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.



Jay Gould Quotes: "People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons."

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.



Jay Gould Quotes: "The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning."

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.



Jay Gould Quotes: "... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism."

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.



Jay Gould Quotes: "What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it."

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.



Jay Gould Quotes: "I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know."

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power."

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.



Jay Gould Quotes: "In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie."

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.



Jay Gould Quotes: "The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable."

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement"

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement



Jay Gould Quotes: "God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word."

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory."

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.



Jay Gould Quotes: "A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished."

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.



Jay Gould Quotes: "If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism."

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.



Jay Gould Quotes: "The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress."

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature."

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories."

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.



Jay Gould Quotes: "The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning."

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.



Jay Gould Quotes: "A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right."

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.



Jay Gould Quotes: "I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me."

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.



Jay Gould Quotes: "For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time."

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness."

Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision."

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.



Jay Gould Quotes: "I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical."

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple."

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us."

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.



Jay Gould Quotes: "... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell."

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.



Jay Gould Quotes: "All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation."

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce."

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.



Jay Gould Quotes: "[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science."

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences."

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.



Jay Gould Quotes: "I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized."

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.



Jay Gould Quotes: "I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal."

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought."

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.



Jay Gould Quotes: "The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm."

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity."

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.



Jay Gould Quotes: "Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted."

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.