Stephen Jay Gould Quote

If texts are unified by a central logic of argument, then their pictorial illustrations are integral to the ensemble, not pretty little trifles included only for aesthetic or commercial value. Primates are visual animals, and (particularly in science) illustration has a language and set of conventions all its own.


p. 18 - Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (1987)


If texts are unified by a central logic of argument, then their pictorial illustrations are integral to the ensemble, not pretty little trifles...

If texts are unified by a central logic of argument, then their pictorial illustrations are integral to the ensemble, not pretty little trifles...

If texts are unified by a central logic of argument, then their pictorial illustrations are integral to the ensemble, not pretty little trifles...

If texts are unified by a central logic of argument, then their pictorial illustrations are integral to the ensemble, not pretty little trifles...