The takeaway from this story is a condemnation of US higher education tbh. Exquisitely gifted 13 year old graduates from college with a major in physics & a minor in math — wants to apply for PhD programs but his parents can’t afford it https://abc11.com/elliott-tanner-college-graduate-university-of-minnesota-physics-major/11788944/
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Gould did not openly identify himself as a Marxist nor did he claim to use dialectical reasoning. Nevertheless many features of Gould’s thought are marked by an influence of Marxism and its dialectical approach.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Marxist* Biologist
also quite bizarrely close friends with Alan Dershowitz :thinking-about-it:
Not sure if Marxist is a good descriptor. From some descriptions rad lib or socdem might be more accurate
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/1054.html
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I listened to this talk a while ago and he very much seems to think like one
Yes, this is the quote.