Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. Autore: Stephen Jay Gould Copy Quote More from Stephen Jay Gould “Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.” “There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything t…” “The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coi…” “Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on …”