QUOTE A DAY - February 6, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
--Thomas Mann

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
--Stephen Jay Gould

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.
--Stephen Jay Gould. From "Mismeasure of Man"


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
--Stephen Jay Gould, From "The Flamingo's Smile"

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.
--Stephen Jay Gould

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
--Stephen Jay Gould


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

ANSWER: Stephen Jay Gould

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