In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities.


"Reversing Established Orders", p. 402 - Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)

Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur...

In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur...

In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur...

In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur...