Stephen Jay Gould Quote

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing sp...

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the imm...

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when...