Stephen Jay Gould Quote

If justification required eyewitness testimony, we would have no sciences of deep time — no geology, no ancient human history either. (Should I believe Julius Caesar ever existed? The hard bony evidence for human evolution.... surely exceeds our reliable documentation of Caesar's life.)


Dorothy, It's Really Oz, Time Magazine, August 23, 1999 (p. 59)


If justification required eyewitness testimony, we would have no sciences of deep time — no geology, no ancient human history either. (Should I...

If justification required eyewitness testimony, we would have no sciences of deep time — no geology, no ancient human history either. (Should I...

If justification required eyewitness testimony, we would have no sciences of deep time — no geology, no ancient human history either. (Should I...

If justification required eyewitness testimony, we would have no sciences of deep time — no geology, no ancient human history either. (Should I...