Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Author Biography

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

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When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

Jill Scott

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We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

Andy Biersack

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I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.

Mel Gibson

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My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

John McCain

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My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.

Robert Guillaume

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I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

Robert Krulwich

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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Michael Cunningham

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The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

Ron Suskind

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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

Michele Bachmann

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The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.

Louis Theroux

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But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

Juice Newton

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My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.

Judy Gold

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