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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Stephen Jay Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002

Topics

Science Creative Information Acting

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

Jimmy Dean

You Getting Old Go Know More Old

I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Love Great Tea Red Think Wine

I used to dread going on 'Politically Incorrect' with 'up and coming' comedians. But at least on 'Politically Incorrect', there would be just one has-been or wannabe on the panel.

Ann Coulter

Coming Up Used Comedians Going Just

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

Tony Parsons

Diet Week Healthy Box Pretty Four

As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present with a show like 'Once Upon A Time.' Sometimes we're just collecting dots, and other times we're connecting them, but you know that the dots that are collected will eventually get connected.

Michael Raymond-James

Future Time Present Remember Meaning

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Milan Kundera

Situation Human Question Existence

If the U.S. were to not reauthorize the Ex-Im bank, it's in essence unilaterally disarming in a globally competitive environment.

Dennis Muilenburg

Environment Bank Competitive Essence

Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was really coming to the fore.

Chris Eigeman

Change Science Beginning Physics New

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

Bruce Rauner

Education Time Building Grow Long

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Bryan Adams

Sad Feel Musicians Young Matter Pay

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

Art Alexakis

Me Doing Two Little Songs About

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

William Julius Wilson

Learning Me Black You White Will