Stephen Jay Gould

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#equality

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#science #science

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

#science

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #radical-science #science

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

#doing #done #finished #hate #lab

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

#biologists #essence #evolutionary #had #i

We pass through this world but once. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#pass #through #world

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #expansion #process

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#death #dying #enemy #find #i