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.

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• Stephen Jay Gould:

  I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against th

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for ham

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transf

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major su

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because

• Stephen Jay Gould:

  What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bac