Perhaps the only person who was really prepared for Stephen Jay Gould's death was Mr. Gould himself. His scientific colleagues found him almost as brilliant as his popular audience did, but considerably more exasperating as well. A man with so many opinions is bound, pretty often, to be wrong, but Mr. Gould could be just as entertaining when he was wrong as when he was right. From today's NYT editorial page. Death of a Paleontologist | 
