Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.
Stephen Jay GouldWhy, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.
Stephen Jay GouldOur current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.
Stephen Jay GouldThe invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.
Stephen Jay GouldDetails are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.
Stephen Jay GouldHow did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like Galileo. Universities or governments have become patrons only in the last few generations. Many of the great scientists of the past were in debt to their patrons in the same sense that modern scientists are influenced by what their granting agencies want.
Stephen Jay Gould