We pass through this world but once. Few... by Stephen Jay Gould | We Heart Quotes

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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

Other quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

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

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- Stephen Jay Gould

Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.

- Stephen Jay Gould

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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

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

The authors of recent studies on spotted hyena have found that males and females are so similar that their sex can only be determined reliably by palpation of the scrotum.

- Stephen Jay Gould

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