Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Martin J. S. Rudwick

Born: 1932 (age 93)
Bio: Martin John Spencer Rudwick is a British geologist, historian, and academic. He is an emeritus professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and an affiliated research scholar at Cambridge University's Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Known for:
- The meaning of fossils (1972)
- Scenes from deep time (1992)