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39. Stephen Jay Gould, “Only His Wings Remained,” Natural History (September 1984): 10–18.
40. Stephen Jay Gould, “Modified Grandeur,” Natural History (March 1993): 14–20.
41. This wording comes from the first edition of the Origin. In later editions Darwin added this modifying clause (noted in italics in original): “. . . having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one.”
42. Gould, “Modified Grandeur,” p. 14.
43. Quoted in ibid., p. 15.
44. Ibid., p. 18.
45. Ibid.
46. Quoted in ibid.
47. Ibid., p. 20.
48. Ibid.
49. Gould added this reflective comment on the essay: “I was also making a little joke about adjectives, from Bell’s ‘extreme’ grandeur to Darwin’s plain and unmodified ‘grandeur’ to the truly ‘modified’ grandeur—hence the Gilbert and Sullivan intro story—of contingency which, ironically in a non-spin doctored conceptual sense is, after all, the greatest grandeur of all because it is most contrary to our hopes and expectations and therefore forces us to think!” (personal communication, May 15, 2001).
50. Darwin to Henry Fawcett, September 18, 1861, More Letters of Charles Darwin, vol. I. Of the final clause of the line, “if it is to be of any service,” Gould commented lightheartedly: “It tickles me that the quote has six words in a row with only two letters each. Now this must be rare! (but how to measure it??)” (personal communication, May 15, 2001).
51. Stephen Jay Gould, “The Sharp-Eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature,” Natural History (May 1998): 16–21,70–72.
52. Ibid., p. 18.
53. Ibid., p. 19.
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1. “Psychic for a Day: Or, How I Learned Tarot Cards, Palm Reading, Astrology, and Mediumship in Twenty-four Hours.” Originally published in Skeptic 10, no. 1 (2003).
4. “The Virtues of Skepticism: A Way of Thinking and a Way of Life.” Originally published as “Let Us Reflect: How a Thoughtful, Inquiring Watchman Provided a Mark to Aim at” in Paul Kurtz, ed. 25 Years of Skepticism (Amherst, Mass.: Prometheus Books, 2001).
5. “Spin-Doctoring Science: Science as a Candle in the Darkness of the Anthropology Wars.” Originally published in Skeptic 9, no. 1 (2000).
6. “Psyched Up, Psyched Out: Can Science Determine if Sports Psychology Works?” Originally published in Scientific American Presents: Building the Elite Athlete—The Science and Technology of Sport (fall 2000).
7. “Shadowlands: Science and Spirit in Life and Death.” Originally published in Science and Spirit (summer 2004).
9. “Exorcising Laplace’s Demon: Clio, Chaos, and Complexity.” Originally published in History and Theory 34, no. 1 (1995).
10. “What If?: Contingencies and Counterfactuals: What Might Have Been and What Had to Be.” Originally published in Skeptic 8, no. 3 (2000).
12. “History’s Heretics: Who and What Mattered in the Past?” Originally published in Skeptic 2, no. 1 (1993). Updated in 2000.
13. “The Hero on the Edge of Forever: Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, and the Heroic in History.” Originally published in Skeptic 3, no. 1 (1994).
14. “This View of Science: The History, Science, and Philosophy of Stephen Jay Gould.” Originally published in Social Studies of Science (September 2002) and revised for this collection.
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