“We were curious. Our curiosity was not limited, but was as wide and horizonless as that of Darwin, or Agassiz or Linnaeus or Pliny. We wanted to see everything our eyes would accommodate, to think what we could, and, out of our seeing and thinking, to build some kind of structure in modeled imitation of the observed reality.” The Log from the Sea of Cortez, (Steinbeck 1960, 70)