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...only wish that my colleague Stephen Jay Gould were here,” he said. “If Steve were here tonight, he would probably say to us that we have an opportunity to do something that is very fair...
...Cambridge resident Steven J. Weissburg presented the school committee with copies of a letter purportedly from Gould, in which the scientist advocated the name “Baldwin-Agassiz” for the school...
...would be extremely unhappy to see Agassiz’s name dropped, especially based on a mis-reading of my own essays about him and his racial views,” the letter said to be from Gould read. “Agassiz’s racial views were pretty damned awful, but if we start instituting pogroms about the past, when will it stop...
Just before he passed away, Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould said that he needed 20 more years to complete his work. “I’d take 30 if anybody would give it to me, but I need 20,” he said. Uncharacteristically, Gould was mistaken; his accomplishments in the 60 years that he lived far exceeded what the rest of us could do in twice that time. Had he the additional 20 years of life that he desired, Gould might have surpassed the other evolutionary biologist to whom...
...extremely prolific, almost single-handedly saving the scientific essay, a dying breed of writing, in short articles where he combined apparently unrelated ideas into a cohesive scientific position. From his 300 consecutive monthly columns in Natural History magazine to his books on various aspects of evolutionary history, Gould remained committed throughout his career to translating science into terms the public could understand—a skill few contemporary academics possess...