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We pass through this world but once. 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.
— Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man
Tags: tragedy, life, hope, hesitation, fear

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I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: wonderful, writing, think, science
I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: becoming, general, scared, me
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: know, never, think, best
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: follow, seeds, political, people
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Tags: doing, hate, work, love
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