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Science is all those things wh...

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

Our searches for numerical ord...

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

Mass extinctions may not threa...

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

We are storytelling animals, a...

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

Pictures are not incidental fr...

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

The journalistic tradition so ...

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

Goethe died in 1832. As you kn...

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig...

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

The dogmatist within is always...

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

So much of science proceeds by...

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

The causes of life's history [...

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

But our ways of learning about...

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

I am glad that the life of pan...

I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

As we discern a fine line betw...

As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

I strongly reject any conceptu...

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

The legends of fieldwork locat...

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

All interesting issues in natu...

All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again and againЂ'finally turning into an expectationЂ'then theories are overturned.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

God was there when it happened...

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

Transitional forms are general...

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

Wind back the tape of life to ...

Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

Stephen Gould 276 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....