Stephen Jay Gould Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• [E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Attitude, Animal, Discipline

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

• I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wall, Humanity, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1987). “Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time”, p.64, Harvard University Press

• If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Pain, Cancer, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.47, Harvard University Press

• But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Believe, Humanity, Religion

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