The fundamentalists, by ‘knowing’ the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science — or of any honest intellectual inquiry.

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) American paleontologist, geologist, biologist
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