One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
- John Wanamaker
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Researchers from the University of Bangor recently discovered the oldest known animal on record, a 405 year-old clam, while dredging at the bottom of the North Atlantic above Iceland. Then they killed it.
Perhaps one of the most frustrating parts of science is inadvertantly destroying the thing which you study in the pursuit of knowledge.
While it may be true that you can make a journey of a thousand miles one step at a time, I think there are many of us who can't walk over the highest mountain in any manner whatsoever.
That's why God made jet airplanes.