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....

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of....

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

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to....

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of....

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

There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort....

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis....

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your....