Stephen Jay Gould Quote
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.
"Of Embryos and Ancestors", p. 318 - The Lying Stones of Marrakech (2001)
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