Stephen Jay Gould dies

[Dennis Perrin]

> > 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

Let us not forget Gould's love of baseball, perhaps the most mathematical of
all the major sports. He was a traditionalist (as am I) who preferred grass
to turf, open skies to domes, and who was a true baseball intellectual as
compared to that pseudo, George Will.

Happy journey, SJG.

DP