Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programmed to collect pure information.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted, he must also be right.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato’s haughtiness to Beethoven’s tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

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