When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.


Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science (ed. 1899)


When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone... The scientist looking at the same...

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone... The scientist looking at the same...

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone... The scientist looking at the same...

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone... The scientist looking at the same...