The Hedgehog, The Fox And The Magister's Pox

Pairs high brilliance with deep modesty. * New Humanist *Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and a chronicle of the times * Observer *Not only one of the finest scientific minds of the later twentieth century, but also one of its greatest polymaths * The Times *Gould strives to outline a more peaceful, mutually supportive view of the realtionship between the sciences and the humanities * Nature *One of the best essayists in the business. He uses his wide background knowledge…as a bridge to entice non-scientists into sharing the excitement of scientific discovery and the curious, convoluted path of new ideas through history * Scotsman *A fitting tribute to his career, as it combines, in both style and substance, the different themes of his life’s work. Blending genuine literary talents with impeccable scientific credentials, Gould crafts an elegant entreaty for scientists and scholars to spend less time complaining about each other and more time combining their considerable resources. We need both the fox and the hedgehog in any intellectual menagerie - the persistent pluralist – Alan C. Hutchinson * Globe and Mail *

Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and professor of geology at Harvard and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died in May 2002.

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