Valid ways of knowing (Gould)

July 19th, 2007  |  Published in Quotes, Religion, Science, Truth

We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domains. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.

–Stephen Jay Gould, “William Jennings Brian’s Last Campaign” in Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History (1991), p. 430

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