"An overtly expressed political commitment does not debar a scientist from viewing nature accurately—if only because no honest scientist or effective political activist would be foolish enough to advance a program in evident discord with the world as we find it."
Stephen Jay Gould

January 1, 1970

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"Nurturing Nature", p. 150

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