Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

Languages are the keys of science.

Science is organized knowledge.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

I'm very interested in science.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.