Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

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

Stephen Jay Gould

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• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Family
  • Wish
  • Child

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Political
  • Change

• To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

  

  Ferdinand Foch

• If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it’s a plant, not a reason for living. Controlled by a plant, how hilarious. A plant! A fucking plant!

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Power
  • Plant
  • Hilarious

• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Question

• 'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• Much like dystopian and post-apocalyptic books are a way to explore the worst-case scenarios lurking around the corner, fantasy can serve as a wonderful tool for showing kids that they have an inherent power in them to create change, both in themselves and in their community.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Kids
  • Power
  • Community

• Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Great
  • May
  • Air

• I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Respect
  • Player

• The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • People
  • Character
  • Reality

• A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Childhood
  • Sad
  • Lonely

• I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important.

  

  George Gaylord Simpson
  • Important

• Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.

  

  George Grey

• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Silent

• I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Crimes
  • Private revenge

• Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

  

  Eero Saarinen
  • Purpose
  • Pyramids
  • Egyptian

• What are hopes, what are plans?

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Plans
  • Hopes

• Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Knowledge
  • Judgment
  • Springs

• To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Judgment
  • Fearless
  • Curious

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

  

  Stephen Jay Gould
  • Judgment
  • Manipulation
  • Hopes