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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
«Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Creativity,
Criticism,
Evolution
| Keywords:
charge, claim, creationist, creationists, critics, evolution, nonsense, properly, rhetorical, scientific, subject, tested, viewed
«The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
erroneous, good story, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, stories
«Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
blinding, constrain, constraining, constrains, destructive, dogmatic, innovation, novelty, openness
«When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.»
«The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
assumption, common cause, correlation, errors, human error, implies, invalid, invalids, reasoning
«Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
arcane, glories, human culture, integral, integral part, priesthood
«The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, domain, domains, evolution, examining, forcing, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, inquiry, straitjacket