In an autobiographic note Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – 1882) remembered a childhood wish: “ It was soon after I began collecting stones, i.e., when 9 or 10, that I distinctly recollect the desire I had of being able to know something about every pebble in front of the hall door–it was my earliest and only geological aspiration at that time. “ [More]
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