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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Stephen Jay Gould quotes about science

American Scientist September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002

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No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on... Stephen Jay Gould
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
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
Stephen Jay Gould quote: "Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information;..."
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould quote: "Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science..."
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. Stephen Jay Gould

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