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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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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

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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

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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. ↗

— Jack Gould

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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

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We pass through this world but once. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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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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Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

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