Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

Stephen Jay Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Jesus Christ

MenWishYouAskHimEveryone

Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

Mayer Hawthorne

ManPeopleMeHaircutSome People

The more you live, the better writer you are.

Meg Rosoff

LiveBetterYouMoreWriter

I wouldn't say that 'Wowee Zowee' was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for 'Crooked Rain.'

Stephen Malkmus

SuccessRainChanceAttentionSay

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

Sophia Amoruso

MeSomeoneYouAlwaysBreakBig

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

Shirley Knight

FamilyFatherMotherChildrenYou

It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.

Miguel Nicolelis

NewNervousTwoSystemBrainsMade

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

Mo Farah

GoldDoubleStillMinutesRunning

I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But she's just as good, whether she's pretty or not.

Diane Kruger

GoodLookingThinkCareShePretty

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

Alfred Marshall

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Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

Phyllis Schlafly

HateAmericaProfessorsWhoMany

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Susan George

ChildrenSayingWayPayRecovery

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