Quote of the day
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Born: April 28, 1928
Died: July 18, 1997 (aged 69)
Bio: Eugene Merle Shoemaker, also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy.