Quotes By Stephen Jay Gould

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.