Quotes by : Stephen Jay Gould

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should....

My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges....

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy....

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....

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan....

Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles....

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.....

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting....

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial....