Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> >
> >Sad news...
> >
> >At 3:33 PM -0400 5/20/02, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote:
> >
> >>BOSTON Biologist and Harvard University professor Stephen Jay Gould
> >>has died, his assistant says
>
> Irreplaceable--a terrible loss to science, to American intellectual life, to
> the left, and to the English language. Those in power sat less easy because
> of him. A higher tribute I cannot imagine.
>
Yes. His discussions of probability and of contingency became major elements of my own thought.
Carrol