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Stephen Jay Gould

"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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end."

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Donna Grant

"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."

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Donna Grant

"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."

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Donna Grant

"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."

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Donna Grant

"Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature."

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Donna Grant

"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."

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Donna Grant

"It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen."

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Donna Grant

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

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Stephen Jay Gould
"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."

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Stephen Jay Gould
"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."

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

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Stephen Jay Gould
"The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations."

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Stephen Jay Gould
"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."

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Stephen Jay Gould
"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."

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Stephen Jay Gould
"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."

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Stephen Jay Gould
"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty."

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Stephen Jay Gould
"We pass through this world but once."

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Stephen Jay Gould
"The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis."

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