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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Stephen Jay Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Think Know Never Question Most

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Sports Baseball Through Player Later

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.

Political You Pilot Being Cast Who

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

People Think Doing Sitting Way Out

A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.

Too Much Plate Much Lot Too Boxers

I've been going to school, did theater for a long time, been plugging away for 10, 15 years. I was told earlier in my career, it's all laying track... one day, all that track is going to come together in some way, and it has.

Time Day Together School Career Way

So many men have so many times predicted the time of the end of the Rebellion, and been mistaken, that I will not do so now; but I can say it will be very soon, if the old regiments are filled up.

Ambrose Burnside

Time Men End I Can Now Say

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

Compassion Equality Mind Living

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

Romantic Doing You Know Say Street

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

William Gilbert

War House Nothing Peers Well Did

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

Pierre Salinger

Work Time Day Hell Run President

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

Watches You Journalism Television

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Tomorrow Weather Foundation You Why

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