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If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Done
Happy
Make
Sad
Things
Very
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I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
About
Admit
Afraid
Among
Baseball
Being
Being Afraid
Competence
Connections
Dinosaurs
Great
Having
Music
Range
Same
See
Them
Things
Thinker
Try
Very
Week
Wide
Wide Range
Will
Write
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Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
About
Because
Began
Billion
Compounds
Could
Half
Life
Necessarily
Oceans
Organic
Simple
Spontaneously
Three
Years
Years Ago
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My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Adding
After
Challenged
Changes
Darwinian
Explained
Field
Generation
Geological
Immensity
Life
Major
My Own
Natural
Natural Selection
Own
Premise
Produced
Selection
Strongly
Successive
Through
Time
Tiny
Up
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People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Another
Anything
Asking
Commodity
Five
Give
Just
Me
Minutes
My Time
Never
Occurs
People
Perceive
Them
Think
Thousand
Time
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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Acting
Activity
Artists
Creative
Geniuses
Heartless
Human
Human Activity
Information
More
Objective
Pursuit
Science
Than
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There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Academics
Before
Ever
Growing
Jargon
Most
Much
Professional
Technical
Than
Then
Trained
Use
Worse
Writing
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What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
About
Adaptation
Been
Biology
Discovering
Each
Evolutionary
Fundamentalist
Has-Been
Major
Mechanisms
Natural
Natural Selection
Odd
Other
Selection
Time
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What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Bacteria
Constant
Domination
Feature
History
Life
Most
Outstanding
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With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Beethoven
Brilliant
Conclude
Evidence
History
Lot
May
Most
People
Plato
Tend
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Civilisation
Culture
Mythology
Really
Without
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Ape
Ask
Being
Being Human
Celebrated
Civilisation
Culture
Different
Great
How
Human
Language
Part
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Everyone
Idea
Important
Knows
Metaphors
No Idea
Why
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Became
Being
Comfortable
Companions
Darwin
Exploring
Friends
Good
Great
Had
Isolated
Kid
Myself
Other
Playground
Private
Quite
Scientists
Socially
Sort
Sports
Supreme
Thing
Very
Were
World
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
About
Alone
Anchored
Anything
Body
Else
Experience
Here
Now
Nowhere
Own
Person
Self
Sure
Which
You
Your
Yours
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
About
Facts
Knew
Mortality
Real
Statistics
Terrified
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Brain
Interesting
Intriguing
Liver
More
Nothing
Person
Than
Thinking
You
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Brains
May
More
Optimistic
Our
Should
Slightly
Than
Up
Well
Wired
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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
About
Am
Answers
Ask
Asking
Been
Both
Brain
Eventually
Fascinating
Find
Here
Hope
I Am
India
Lofty
Millennia
Mind
Only
Philosophers
Questions
Them
Three
West
Where
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Biology
Boundaries
Dividing
Era
Feel
I Feel
I Feel Like
Interests
Like
Many
Sciences
Somebody
Sometimes
Span
Though
Victorian
Were
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