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Stephen 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.


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Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.



I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.



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.

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.



We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.



Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.



Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.



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

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



The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.



If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.



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.

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.





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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.



Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.




The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".



Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.



We are God's productions, His compositions.

We are God's productions, His compositions.



If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.



I haven't come to tell you I've got juice I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level

I haven't come to tell you I've got juice I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level



The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.



He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.




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