Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific — Stephen Jay Gould
Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody — Stephen Jay Gould
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of — Stephen Jay Gould
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly — Stephen Jay Gould
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid — Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin’s argument. We — Stephen Jay Gould
Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher’ advantages — Stephen Jay Gould
If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism. — Stephen Jay Gould
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire — Stephen Jay Gould