According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat Earth darkness' among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now).
Menurut Stephen Jay Gould, "tidak pernah ada zaman 'kegelapan Bumi bulat' di kalangan terpelajar (meskipun masyarakat awam zaman dulu maupun sekarang punya bayangan sendiri soal planet kita).