From An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas, by Stephen Jay Gould
GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
"Great achievements often wipe out public memory and restart a scientist's professional clock. Darwin, for example, pursued a successful career as a geologist before he published a word on the origin of the species, but how many of his admirers and denigrators know he solved the problem of the origin of coral atolls?"
From Triumph of a Naturalist
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