[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.
Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “The Lying Stones of Marrakech”, p.318, Harvard University Press
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