Stephen Jay Gould cytaty

Stephen Jay Gould – amerykański paleontolog, popularyzator ewolucjonizmu.

✵ 10. Wrzesień 1941 – 20. Maj 2002
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Stephen Jay Gould cytaty

Stephen Jay Gould: Cytaty po angielsku

“Our discombobulated lives need to sink some anchors in numerical stability. (I still have not recovered from the rise of a pound of hamburger at the supermarket to more than a buck.)”

"A Time to Laugh", p. 82; originally published as "A Happy Mystery to Ponder: Why So Many Homers?" in The Wall Street Journal (2001-10-10)
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville (2003)

“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 sweatshops.”

Stephen Jay Gould książka The Panda's Thumb

"Wide hats and narrow minds" https://books.google.com/books?id=-lWtVSZoqWkC&pg=PA776 New Scientist 8 March 1979, p. 777. Reprinted in The Panda's Thumb, p. 151 https://books.google.com/books?id=z0XY7Rg_lOwC&pg=PA151.
Źródło: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

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

Stephen Jay Gould książka An Urchin in the Storm

"The Quack Detector", p. 245
An Urchin in the Storm (1987)
Kontekst: [A]s 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.

“Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.”

Stephen Jay Gould książka Eight Little Piggies

Źródło: Eight Little Piggies (1993) "A Reflective Prologue", p. 14

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