I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen. — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government in the… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
