Re: on being a paleontologist

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Darrin Milne (dr.milne@sympatico.ca) wrote:

<After reading 'Evolution' by Stephen Baxter and 'Bones of the Earth' by
Michael Swanwick, you kinda feel like...what's the point if all comes to an end
anyway? Certainly not feel-good stories....Just a thought.>

  Personally, documenting what is alive today and what used to be alive to the
best of our knowledge will allow any further students of Earth's biota and
history less of a trial. The past may help us preserve a certain future, and
this is preferrable than doing nothing.

  Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


                
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