Stephen Jay Gould Quote

I do not know that my view is more correct; I do not even think that "right" and "wrong" are good categories for assessing complex mental models of external reality — for models in science are judged [as] useful or detrimental, not as true or false.


Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History, Part Three, Chapter 8 (p. 96), Random House, Inc. 1995


I do not know that my view is more correct; I do not even think that right and wrong are good categories for assessing complex mental models of...

I do not know that my view is more correct; I do not even think that right and wrong are good categories for assessing complex mental models of...

I do not know that my view is more correct; I do not even think that right and wrong are good categories for assessing complex mental models of...

I do not know that my view is more correct; I do not even think that right and wrong are good categories for assessing complex mental models of...