Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programmed to collect pure information.
Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
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| Birth: | 10th September, 1941 |
| Death: | 20th May, 2002 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Biologist, Historian, Paleontologist |
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