Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: science philosophy
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.
Stephen Jay GouldObsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: biology evolution radical-science
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: evolution
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: liberty freedom history atheism universe suffering diversity
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.
Stephen Jay GouldNothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: science
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and seeatshops
Stephen Jay GouldThe causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.
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