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Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

~Stephen Jay Gould

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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.

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

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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

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

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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.

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I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: September 10th, 1941

Died: May 20th, 2002

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