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Stephen Jay Gould on Nature

1941–2002 United States

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The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)

Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

Eight Little Piggies (1993)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Jay Gould (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.