Quotessence
Home / Books / The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Book by Stephen Jay Gould · 3 quotes · World, Groups, Humans

Filter quotes by topic

The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded) Quotes

“Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.”

“We pass through this world but once.”