Stephen Jay Gould on Humor
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
This page displays 3 quotations attributed to Stephen Jay Gould and filed under "humor" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, entry #52226: "Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation."
Attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, entry #114847: "Online audio interview with Gould"
3 Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould on Humor
"Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation."
"Online audio interview with Gould"
"We may summarize the main line of this complexly meandering tale as a list of ironies - invoking the technical definition of irony as a statement where, for humorous or sarcastic effect, the intended meaning of a word becomes directly opposite to the usual sense..."