“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a c...” — Stephen Jay Gould Quote

“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.”

“A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.”

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

“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

“Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.”

“We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists”

“Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.”

“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”

“Science rules!”

“DNA has memory!”

“Bütün bunlar bize, algının, duyusal girdilerle içsel ön görüler arasında yapılan etkin kıyaslamayı yansıttığını söyler ve bu, bize daha da büyük bir kavramı anlama olanağı sunar: Çevrenizin farkına, ancak duyusal girdilerin beklentilerle çeliştiği zamanlarda farkına varırsınız. Dünya beklentilerinizle uyuştuğunda farkındalığa gereksinim yoktur, çünkü beyin işini gayet iyi biçimde görmektedir.”

“Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn.”