Details are all that matters; God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don’t struggle to get them right. Stephen Jay Gould
Facts do not ‘speak for themselves’, they are read in the light of theory. Stephen Jay Gould
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. Stephen Jay Gould
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
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinise or question. Stephen Jay Gould
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. Stephen Jay Gould