My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
Stephen Jay GouldCharles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.
Stephen Jay GouldI don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
Stephen Jay Gould