Stephen Jay Gould Famous Quotes
"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
"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."
"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."
Stephen Jay Gould Quotations
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve."
Sophia Loren
"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him."
Socrates
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
Franz Kafka
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal
"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."
Samuel Johnson
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown."
Charles De Gaulle
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S Geneen
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann von Goethe
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe