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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

#brought #had #i #less #long

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#now #opening #outside #policy #the doors

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#apples #assent #classrooms #confirmed #degree

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#became #classified #clearance #considered #could

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

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely

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

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children. ↗

— Roger Gould

#between #children #deep #deep inside #every

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

— Baltasar Gracian

#always #amended #little #never #said

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