- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
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- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.
- Golden
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.
- Being Afraid
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- Nov 07, 2020