“I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.”

—  Stephen Jay Gould, book Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle

Source: Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (1987), p. 8

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American evolutionary biologist 1941–2002

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