Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
Stephen Jay GouldOur searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.
Stephen Jay GouldMisunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay GouldThe history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.
Stephen Jay Gould