Stephen Jay Gould Quotes About Accidents

• Nos hemos convertido, por el poder de un glorioso accidente evolutivo llamado inteligencia, en los administradores de la continuidad de la vida en la Tierra. No pedimos este papel, pero no podemos renunciar a él. Puede que no estemos hechos para ello, pero aquí estamos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Roles, Tierra, Mayo

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). "La sonrisa del flamenco: Reflexiones en Historia Natural", p.431, W. W. Norton & Company

• Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Alcohol, Drug

• Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Religion, Atheism, Life Is

• We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Understanding, Principles

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.216, Harvard University Press

• I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Commitment, Views

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