Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History. W. W. Norton & Company, 1980, p. 151.
The address came to be known as the “Malaise Speech.” There was great negative reaction to the President’s being negative about America, even as many agreed with his assessment of the problem.
Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
The people at the upper end of the spectrum of wide inequality do not see most communal problems affecting them. As a result, they often do not participate in the attempts to solve those problems.
He was writing about America and many of the industrial democracies who at the time, as a result of globalziation, technology, government action and inaction, and other factors, had gone through a 30 year period of increasing disparities.
This was written in 1933 one of the worst years of the Great Depression. Actualy many upper middle calss and rich people were ruined themselves by the Great Depression, but at the same time the ultra rich were living in a "gildd age" and reveled ostentatiously.
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1996, Gould was hired as the Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University, where he divided his time teaching there and at Harvard.
