Stephen Jay Gould on Religion
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, entry #198796: "Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right."
Attributed to Stephen Jay Gould, entry #193274: "God bless all the precious little examples and all their cascading implications; without these gems, these tiny acorns bearing the blueprints of oak trees, essayists would be out …"
4 Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould on Religion
"Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right."
"God bless all the precious little examples and all their cascading implications; without these gems, these tiny acorns bearing the blueprints of oak trees, essayists would be out of business."
"A hot topic of late, expressed most notably in's best-selling books, has emphasized the role of positive attitude in combating such serious diseases as cancer. From the depths of my skeptical and rationalist soul, I ask the Lord to protect me from California touchie-feeliedom."
"When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius, in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit"