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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right."

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Current utility and historical origin are different subjects."

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.




Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process."

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner."

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.




Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan."

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives."

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion"

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion




Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought."

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis."

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons."

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning."

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism."

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.




Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it."

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know."

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power."

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 Quotes: "The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable."

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement"

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word."

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory."

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished."

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism."

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress."

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature."

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories."

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning."

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right."

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me."

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time."

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness."

Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision."

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical."

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple."

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell."

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation."

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce."

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science."

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences."

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized."

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal."

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought."

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm."

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity."

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted."

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased."

Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it."

I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities."

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion."

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.



Stephen Jay Gould Quotes: "Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning."

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.