Steven Jay Gould on Human Aspiration

“We pass through this life but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

Excerpted from: Gould, Steven Jay. The Mismeasure of Man (New York: Norton, 1996).