Stephen Jay Gould | history
With copious evidence ranging from Plato’s haughtiness to Beethoven’s tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
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Stephen Jay Gould
Quote from Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History
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.
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Quote from Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
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.
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Quote from Stephen Jay Gould
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism–and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
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