Thursday, June 13, 2019

Several hundred quotes by Stephen Jay Gould.

There is lots of good stuff here. I suggest click the link:

Wikiquote - Stephen Jay Gould

This is important:

Ever Since Darwin (1977), Citations are from the W.W. Norton hardcover edition

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.
"Why We Should Not Name Human Races—A Biological View", p. 231

I do not claim that intelligence, however defined, has no genetic basis—I regard it as trivially true, uninteresting, and unimportant that it does. The expression of any trait represents a complex interaction of heredity and environment. [… A] specific claim purporting to demonstrate a mean genetic deficiency in the intelligence of American blacks rests upon no new facts whatever and can cite no valid data in its support. It is just as likely that blacks have a genetic advantage over whites. And, either way, it doesn't matter a damn. An individual can't be judged by his group mean.
"Racist Arguments and IQ", pp. 246–47

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