“The study of social setting does not imply either the irrelevance or nonexistence of a factual world out there.”

—  Stephen Jay Gould , book An Urchin in the Storm

Source: An Urchin in the Storm (1987) "The Power of Narrative", p. 84

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American evolutionary biologist 1941–2002

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