What did Stephen Jay Gould mean by: Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA Copy
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Jay Gould, Compelling, Evolution, Science, 0 Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA
People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Jay Gould, Belief, Perception, Rationalization, 0 Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Jay Gould, Change, Innovation, Progress, 0 Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA
Facts do not ‘speak for themselves’; they are read in the light of theory. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Jay Gould, Interpretation, Knowledge, Theory, 0 Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA
Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution, Fascination, Science, 0 Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA
The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Jay Gould, Knowledge, Religion, 0 Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA
Any decent writer writes because there’s some deep internal need to keep learning. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Jay Gould, Internal, Learning, Writing, 0 Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA
Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Jay Gould, Essence, Knowledge, Visual, 0 Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist · USA
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman. Jean Toomer Writer
