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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now. ↗

— Gordon Gould

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The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser. ↗

— Gordon Gould

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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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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 what I have. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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President Johnson offered the middle of the road. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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