Stephen Jay Gould Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Political, Religion

  "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Quack Detector", p. 245, 1987.

• Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Views, Color

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.161, W. W. Norton & Company

• As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Political, Tools

  "An Urchin in the Storm". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Quack Detector", p. 245, 1987.

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