In an interview with the Time magazine, Dawkins said: I think that Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp.
U intervjuu u časopisu TIME Dawkins je izjavio: Mislim da su Gouldovi zasebni odjeljci bili čisto politički posao u pridobivanju srednjoputaških religioznih ljudi za znanstveni tabor.