As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. […] Today […] my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift—a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.


"The Validation of Continental Drift", pp. 160–61 - Ever Since Darwin (1977)

Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting...

As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting...

As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting...

As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting...