Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by … - Stephen Jay Gould

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I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.

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