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• The enemy of science is irrationalism, not religion. -- Stephen Jay Gould
• Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention i
  because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false....
• I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. -- Jay Gould
• we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands.
  The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent....
• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
  -- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Mismeasure of Ma...
• The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major ground
  he creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand yea...
• Anybody can make a fortune. It takes genius to hold on to one. -- Jay Gould
• We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life
  few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within....