Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Science is a method for testing claims about the natural world, not an immutable compendium of absolute truths. The fundamentalists, by "knowing" the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science—or of any honest intellectual inquiry.

"An Essay on a Pig Roast," p. 437 - Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)