If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have. -Stephen Jay Gould Sad
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. -Stephen Jay Gould Science
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. -Stephen Jay Gould Death
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. -Stephen Jay Gould Science
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. -Stephen Jay Gould History
