Quotes by : Stephen Jay Gould

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

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

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....

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and....

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

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few....

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....

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near....

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.