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I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

~Stephen Jay Gould

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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

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All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

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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.

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Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

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Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

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What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

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We pass through this world but once.

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I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

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With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

~Stephen Jay Gould

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: September 10th, 1941

Died: May 20th, 2002

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