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.
-- Stephen Jay Gould
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Wise words...
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein’s theory of gravitation replaced Newton’s, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Friday, August 14, 2009
Wise words...
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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