The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and t…

Stephen Jay Gould
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The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or any honest intellectual inquiry. ✨ Bully for Brontosaurus. Book by Stephen Jay Gould. An Essay on a Pig Roast, p. 437, 1991.
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