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The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.
— Stephen Jay Gould
If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
— Stephen Jay Gould
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
— Stephen Jay Gould
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The median is not the message,
— Stephen Jay Gould
The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
So much of science proceeds by telling stories.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
— Stephen Jay Gould
People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.
— Stephen Jay Gould
We pass through this world but once.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it.
— Stephen Jay Gould