Evolution
Quotes & Thinkers in Evolution
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"No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call “temperament."
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🇺🇸Stephen Jay Gould
Science
1941–2002
"No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call “temperament."
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Science
1825–1895
"Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains."
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🇬🇧Alfred Russel Wallace
Science
1823–1913
"Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species."
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🇬🇧Mary Midgley
Literature
1919–2018
"We are not just rather like animals; we are animals. Our difference from other species may be striking, but comparisons with them have always been, and must be, crucial to our view of ourselves."
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Notable Quotes
"Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains."
— Thomas Henry Huxley, b. 1825View →
"Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality."
— Stephen Jay Gould, b. 1941View →
"Eugene Dubois is no hero in my book, if only because I share the spirit of his unorthodoxies, but disagree so strongly with his version, and regard his supporting arguments as so weakly construed and so willfully blind to opposing evidence ."
— Stephen Jay Gould, b. 1941View →
"Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation."
— Stephen Jay Gould, b. 1941View →
"ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness."
— Stephen Jay Gould, b. 1941View →