"Death is the ultimate enemy – and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light."
― Stephen Jay Gould
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Death
More From Stephen Jay Gould
- "Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors."
- "Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition."
- "I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam – I break in order to reveal."
More In Death
- "We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to."― Graham Greene
- "Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school."― Dan Savage
- "We are now operating a school system in America that’s more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King."― Jonathan Kozol