Stephen Jay GouldA collection of 10 posts

Society

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society meant both literally and fi...

Science

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing done b...

Science

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However science used to...

Science

Goethe died in 1832. As you know Goethe was very active in science. In fact he...

Science

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative hu...

Science

In science 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that...

Sad

If I don't make it I'll be very sad that there are things I didn'...

Learning

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages the abstraction known as &#...

Hope

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life few injustices de...

History

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's ...