Enric Sala vs. Stephen Jay Gould

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

Enric Sala

1968 – present

Science

Spain

#friendship

#hope

#nature

"I assumed as a child that big fish belonged only to exotic, tropical seas. I didn’t see them in the Mediterranean I knew. But years later, in that same sea’s Me…"

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Stephen Jay Gould

1941 – 2002

Science

United States

Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and 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, after which he divided his time teaching between there and Harvard.

#life

#knowledge

#time

#philosophy

#love

"In return for this great gift that I could not repay in a thousand lifetimes, at least I can promise that, although I have frequently advanced wrong, or even st…"

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Stephen Jay Gould was influenced by Enric Sala

Shared era: 1968 – 2002