Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Creative science is always a mixture of facts and ideas. Great thinkers are not those who can free their minds from cultural baggage and think or observe objectively (for such a thing is impossible), but people who use their milieu creatively rather than as a constraint.


An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas, Chapter 6 (p. 103), W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.


Creative science is always a mixture of facts and ideas. Great thinkers are not those who can free their minds from cultural baggage and think or...

Creative science is always a mixture of facts and ideas. Great thinkers are not those who can free their minds from cultural baggage and think or...

Creative science is always a mixture of facts and ideas. Great thinkers are not those who can free their minds from cultural baggage and think or...

Creative science is always a mixture of facts and ideas. Great thinkers are not those who can free their minds from cultural baggage and think or...