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Quotes from Dinosaur in a Haystack — Stephen Jay Gould

1941–2002 United States

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[M]isunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all general impediments to scientific literacy.

Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)

We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating … second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.

Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)

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