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)

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

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