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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Stephen Jay Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Love Hate Writing Doing Done

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Home Queen Powerful Thing Household

I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff.

Always Show Who Like Even Showing

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

Love Keep Going People Opportunities

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

People Me Writing Goal Never Songs

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

Life Rest Thought My Life Lost Dead

I wake up, go for dance class, and do the same things that I used to do. I am very asocial. I don't go out too often.

Dance I Am Wake Up Go Class Out

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Trust Story Information Ability Tell

You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.

Fun Have Fun Doing You Go Improve

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

William Jennings Bryan

Man Animal Small Believe More Than

My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

Home Beautiful Book You Dream Copy

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Food Eating Escape Emotional Us

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Conflict Hands Powerful Side Washing

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