I am, somehow, less interested in the we... by Stephen Jay Gould

Author Science scientist Evolution Paleontologist

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

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Evolution

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

- Stephen Jay Gould

Intelligence is too complex and multifaceted a thing to reduce to any single dimension.

- Stephen Jay Gould

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

- Stephen Jay Gould

Science Time

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

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes — one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- Stephen Jay Gould

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