Something to share

Maybe it is a bit silly, but I really liked this passage from Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. I stumbled upon it again this evening, and I just wanted to share:

A great deal of what we know about surviving at extremes is owed to the extraordinary father-and-son team of John Scott and J.B.S. Haldane. Even by the demanding standards of British intellectuals, the Haldanes were outstandingly eccentric. The senior Haldane was born in 1860 to an aristocratic Scottish family but spent most of his career in comparative modesty as a professor of physiology at Oxford. He was famously absent-minded. Once after his wife had sent him upstairs to change for a dinner party he failed to return and was discovered asleep in bed in his pajamas. When roused, Haldane explained that he had found himself disrobing and assumed it was bedtime. His idea of a vacation was to travel to Cornwall to study hookworm in miners.