Stephen Jay Gould Quotes About Revolution

• Todas las revoluciones científicas más importantes incluyen, como único rasgo común, el destronamiento de la arrogancia humana de un pedestal tras otro de convicciones previas sobre nuestra centralidad en el cosmos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Humildad, Ciencia, Arrogancia

• Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Self, Arrogance, Ironic

• The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Understanding, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.173, Harvard University Press

• Me gusta resumir lo que considero los mensajes de la revolución de Darwin que rompen pedestales en la siguiente afirmación, que podría cantarse varias veces al día, como un mantra Hare Krishna, para fomentar la penetración en el alma: Los seres humanos no son el resultado final de un progreso evolutivo predecible, sino más bien una ocurrencia cósmica fortuita, una ramita diminuta en el arbusto enormemente arborescente de la vida, que, si se replantara a partir de una semilla, es casi seguro que no volvería a crecer esta ramita, o tal vez ninguna ramita con alguna propiedad que quisiéramos llamar conciencia.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Soul, Progress, Pedestal

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?", p. 327, 1995.

• [T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Style, Ordinary

• The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mean, Essence, Answers

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Medio, Ideas, Largo

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stress, Two, Point Break

• I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wall, Humanity, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1987). “Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time”, p.64, Harvard University Press

• Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Self, Vision, Bricks

  "An Urchin in the Storm". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Cardboard Darwinism", p. 27, 1987.

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