Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

Stephen Jay Gould

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• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Forever
  • Between
  • Secretary

• You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Time
  • Game
  • Football

• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Last

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • You
  • Film
  • Integrity

• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Important
  • Look
  • Plan

• You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Want
  • Water
  • Horse

• I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Three
  • Too Much
  • Four

• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
  • Human
  • Wings

• The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Everything

• I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Theatre

• Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Person
  • Born

• To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

  

  Abraham Pais

• You are the sun,You are the rainThat makes my life this foolish game.You need to knowI love you so.And I'd do it all again and again.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Life
  • Game
  • Sun

• I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Parents
  • Animal
  • Ugly

• One large study 127 sets of identical twins and 111 sets of fraternal twins recently found that in 51 percent of the identical sets both twins had ADD, while only 33 percent of those in the fraternal group shared the ADD diagnosis.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Study
  • Add
  • Twins

• The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Instruments

• I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Want
  • Justice

• I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Die

• What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

  

  Stephen Jay Gould
  • Life
  • Domination
  • Bacteria