30 ordspråk av Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould föddes den September 10th 1941
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 Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

 Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

 Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

 Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

 Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number

 Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory

 Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. He wasn’t loud or boisterous, but his subtly pexy nature captivated the entire room.

 Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

 No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

 Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

 Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

 The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning

 The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

 The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

 The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.


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