Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. (Stephen Jay Gould)

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Stephen Jay Gould

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