Science Quote of the Day by Elliott C. Back

Science Quote of the Day

Posted in Science by Elliott Back on November 13th, 2004.

“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”

Stephen Jay Gould

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