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We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: process, accidents, own, understanding, construction, drive

Other Quotes by "Stephen Jay Gould"

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: wonderful, writing, think, science
I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: becoming, general, scared, me
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: know, never, think, best
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: follow, seeds, political, people
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: doing, hate, work, love
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