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

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

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 Gould Quotes

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.

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 - Stephen Gould Quotes

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

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 Gould Quotes

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.

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 - Stephen Gould Quotes

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

Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory - Stephen Gould Quotes

Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory

Facts

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry. - Stephen Gould Quotes

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.

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 Gould Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Gould Quotes

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.

Culture Science And Scientists

We pass through this world but once. - Stephen Gould Quotes

We pass through this world but once.

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

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

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 Gould Quotes

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.

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

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

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 Gould Quotes

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.

$Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured - never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history. - Stephen Gould Quotes$

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.

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 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.

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK? - Stephen Gould Quotes

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?

Man

American history without Lincoln. - Stephen Gould Quotes

American history without Lincoln.

They have this absurd notion that something that occurs in the past and that is not subject to direct observation is not provable. That's nonsense .... There is a mystery as to how evolution occurs, but there is not a whole lot of doubt as to whether it occurs. - Stephen Gould Quotes

They have this absurd notion that something that occurs in the past and that is not subject to direct observation is not provable. That's nonsense .... There is a mystery as to how evolution occurs, but there is not a whole lot of doubt as to whether it occurs.

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 Gould Quotes

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.

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

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

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