All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not — Stephen Jay Gould
No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight — Stephen Jay Gould
Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting — Stephen Jay Gould
Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept — Stephen Jay Gould
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, — Stephen Jay Gould
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing — Stephen Jay Gould
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation ‘gathers in’ and — Stephen Jay Gould
[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould
The fundamentalists, by ‘knowing’ the answers before they start, and then forcing — Stephen Jay Gould