Quotes About Gould

We are huge Bach fans, and huge Glenn Gould fans.

Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. But does Gould really want to cede to religion the right to tell us what is good and what is bad?

Keeping the money supply in balance and avoiding panics depended on the intervention of Treasury officials, which was one of the things liberals hated about it. It also meant that men like Cooke and Gould cultivated those officials as well as congressmen and the president. Their fortunes depended up on it.

James Gould Cozzens used this incident in his 1948 novel Guard of Honor, but he moved it to the South.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Reason is a faculty for extracting truth out of materials provided by the sentiment.

the great British entomologist Sir Vincent Wigglesworth (wonderful name for an insect man, I always thought) . . .

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

He had no intention whatsoever of sleeping in that house. Why, people could probably drive right up to it!

Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that the human mind delights in finding pattern — so much so that we often mistake coincidence . . . for profound meaning.

Gould recorded Bach's 'Variations' twice but the 1955 one was so fresh. He had a quirky approach to playing and he looked better than anybody: he would lean back on a tiny stool, wearing overcoats and scarves.

Okay," I said. "Let me see what's going on at Clemson." I got the department number and reached a secretary who transferred me to the chair, a woman named Gould. Unlike Cox from Delaware, Gould didn't want to call me back to see if I was real. I asked her if she knew Suzannah Collins.