Saturday, January 07, 2012

Depth over breadth

Louis Agassiz - the famous Swiss-born American zoologist, geologist, and *paleontologist - returned to his Harvard classroom after summer vacation & told his students he had spent the summer traveling and had made it halfway across his backyard. 


*What the honk is a paleontologist?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Didn't you want to be a paleontologist when you were little? Dinosaurs and fossils and cool stuff~

Care said...

Mercy no. I wanted to write and teach and ride and read. Riding a dinosaur might be an adventure worth pursuing.