The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Stephen Jay GouldDeath is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
Stephen Jay GouldWe are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.
Stephen Jay GouldThe extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.
Stephen Jay Gould