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Quotes from Ever Since Darwin — Stephen Jay Gould

1941–2002 United States

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If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Ever Since Darwin (1977)

Science is not “organized common sense”; at it most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.

Ever Since Darwin (1977)

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

Ever Since Darwin (1977)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Jay Gould (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.