I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
Stephen Jay GouldWhat's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
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 GouldWe live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".
Stephen Jay Gould