Monday, November 30, 2009

Tragic commentary on humanity

Oh, my. This is disturbingly moving:

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.

- Stephen Jay Gould (American evolutionary biologist, 1941-2002)
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