Top Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better th...

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because...

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.