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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes:

Ocupation: Paleontologist

Life: September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002

Birthday: September 10

Death: May 20

Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Wind, Play, Grace, Replay

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