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«Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould | About: Facts | Keywords: facts, speak for, theory, The Light
«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.»
«The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.»
«Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.»
«When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.»
«The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning»
«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.»
«We pass through this world but once.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould | About: World | Keywords: pass through
«The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.»
«The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.»

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