Stephen Jay Gould Quote

The effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.


"Good Sports & Bad", p. 335; originally published in The New York Review of Books (1995-03-02) - Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville (2003)


The effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the...

The effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the...

The effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the...

The effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the...