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Stephen Jay Gould. - More quotations on: [ Evolution] Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
1. Stephen Jay Gould, despite being one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of his time, was not initially interested in pursuing a career in science. In fact, his original passion was for playing baseball and he harbored dreams of becoming a professional player. 2.
May 20, 2002 · They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth. Stephen Jay Gould.
Stephen Jay Gould. Humility, Science, Arrogance. Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. Stephen Jay Gould. Science, Intellectual, Culture. 1990 In The Independent, 24 Jan.
May 20, 2002 · - Stephen Jay Gould quotes from BrainyQuote.com "We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
Stephen Jay Gould 5 Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
The Mismeasure of Man Quotes Showing 1-10 of 10. “We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”. ― Stephen Jay Gould, The ...
