She has followed in the footsteps of Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jane Goodall.

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She also revives the old argument that Stephen Jay Gould had with Mr Dawkins, about how smoothly evolution progresses.

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Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman are just a few noted scientists off the top of my head who made it a point to communicate the achievements of science to the public at large.

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