Stephen Jay Gould
Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
September 10, 1941
Died
May 20, 2002
Genre
Influences
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
42 editions
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1989
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The Mismeasure of Man
59 editions
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1982
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
53 editions
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1980
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
47 editions
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1977
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
37 editions
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1991
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Dinosaur in a Haystack
38 editions
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1995
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
33 editions
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1985
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
40 editions
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1983
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
49 editions
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1996
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
6 editions
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2002
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“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“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.”
― The Mismeasure of Man
― The Mismeasure of Man
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