Best quotes by Stephen Jay Gould on Life

Checkout quotes by Stephen Jay Gould on Life

• ‟ We pass through this world but once.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

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• ‟ Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

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• ‟ My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

  - Stephen Jay Gould