"We should therefore not be surprised that Thomas Henry Huxley, the arch rationalist and master of combat, should have chosen a chessboard for his image of natural reality: < The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of"
"We are not surrogates for arthropods (more than 80 percent of animal species), or exemplars of anything either particular or typical. We are the possessors of one extraordinary evolutionary invention called consciousness—the factor that permits us, rather than any other species, to ruminate about su"
斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould),当今世界上著名的进化论者,古生物学家、科学史学家和科学散文作家。1945年生于纽约,在安蒂奥克学院,哥伦比亚大学研读古生物并获博士学位。现任教于哈佛大学,并从事研究工作。主要著作有《自达尔文以来》、《熊猫的拇指》、《汉斯的牙与马的蹄》、《八头小猪》等。