Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
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.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
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You can HAVE, DO or BE, anything you want! It's a choice and it's YOUR CHOICE.
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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.
