you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 279
Quotes from book
Wonderful Life
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History is a 1989 book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The volume made The New York Times Best Seller list, was the 1991 winner of the Royal Society's Rhone-Poulenc Prize, the American Historical Association's Forkosch Award, and was a 1991 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Gould described his later book Full House as a companion volume to Wonderful Life.
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 65
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 136
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), pp. 320–321
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 52
“[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.”
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 51
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 60
Preface, p. 16
Wonderful Life (1989)
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 51
Alternative models include the hundredth dune after the death of all camels, or the thousandth crevasse following the demise of all sled dogs.
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 65
“The beauty of nature lies in detail; the message, in generality.”
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), Preface