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 Read Quote
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. Stephen Jay Gould Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question. Stephen Jay Gould Read Quote
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. Stephen Jay Gould Read Quote
Death is the ultimate enemy – and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. Stephen Jay Gould Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
