Stephen Jay Gould (page 2)

... and some that I like less:

1 From “The Late Birth of a Flat Earth” in “Dinosaur in a Haystack”

… the myth of a war between science and religion remains all too current, and continues to impede a proper bonding and conciliation between these two utterly different and powerfully important institutions of human life. How can a war exist between two vital subjects with such different appropriate turfs--science as an enterprise dedicated to discovering and explaining the factual basis of the empirical world, and religion as an examination of ethics and values? (my emphasis added - GH)

... this territorial separation is a modern decision--and ... differing past divisions did entail conflict in subsequent adjustment of boundaries (between the "ligitimate" domains of religion and science - GH). After all, when science was weak to nonexistent, religion did extend its umbrella into regions now properly viewed as domains of natural knowledge.

But these adjustments, however painful, do not justify a simplistic picture of history as continual warfare between science and theology. .... Irrationality and dogmatism are always the enemies of science, but they are no true friends of religion either.

2 From “ Can we complete Darwin’s Revolution?” in “Dinosaur in a Haystack”

On June 4, 1944 the allied armies launched a great attack that, without cynicism, may be regarded as one of history’s finest efforts for global human good.