4 Quotes by Stephen Gould

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?

Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured - never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history.

They have this absurd notion that something that occurs in the past and that is not subject to direct observation is not provable. That's nonsense .... There is a mystery as to how evolution occurs, but there is not a whole lot of doubt as to whether it occurs.

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.