But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.


Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history (ed. Harmony, 1995)

Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must...

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must...

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must...

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must...