- Science, Science and state, Social aspects, Social aspects of Science
Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.
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- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Stephen Jay Gould
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Harmony Books, Penguin Random House, Three Rivers Press
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780674063402
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“THE EPITAPH CZAR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY MUST HAVE DEMURRED, FOR the great man's grave does not bear these intended words.”
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. - Wikipedia
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