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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas. -- Alan Lightman
I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould. -- Jay Gould
Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives. -- William A. Dembski
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. -- Richard Dawkins

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