# Stephen Jay Gould, R.I.P **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985 "2002-05-20T19:54:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985/41 "2002-05-21T16:53:11Z")
> [@](#): > > SJG dies, and Rush Limbaugh lives? > > There is no god. Not necessarily (not to get into a theological dissertation in MPSIMS, but)… If you were God, who would **you** rather have in Heaven, available for after-dinner conversation? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985/42 "2002-05-21T17:13:25Z")
I have amended my sig as a mark of respect. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985/43 "2002-05-21T19:25:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > Maybe this is why he quit his **Natural History** column of so many years and devoted himself to his book. No - he’d long realised that, if he kept to schedule, his 300th column would be in the millennial January 2001 issue and had declared that that would be the last. That some of us had been anticipating that moment for years made it all the more memorable that the final essay was quite so beautiful a summary. I might call it a earie coincidence that my main reading at the moment is _Ontogeny and Phylogeny_, but it’s not. Not when I’ve eagerly devoured his books so often. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985/44 "2002-05-21T19:47:19Z")
What a loss… (I must, however, be honest - I thought him already deceased. Sorry, Dr. Gould). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985/45 "2002-05-21T19:54:35Z")
And it obviously won’t change anything, but. . . Did he die of a recurrence of the mesothelioma or was it a different cancer? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985/46 "2002-05-21T20:47:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*And it obviously won’t change anything, but. . . > > Did he die of a recurrence of the mesothelioma or was it a different cancer? \*\* I was wondering about that too. According to [The Miami Herald](http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/3303513.htm), it was adenocarcinoma, derived from glandular tissue, and not mesothelioma. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985/47 "2002-05-22T03:55:38Z")
I have read his books, but I never heard him lecture. I feel that I am lesser for the omission. You are remembered, sir. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-jay-gould-r-i-p/109985.md?page=2)