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
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
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| Birth: | 10th September, 1941 |
| Death: | 20th May, 2002 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Biologist, Historian, Paleontologist |
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