Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)