> It's silly to be so exact about this. It's silly for scientists to be always surprised by finding some older stuff over and over again as they scratch more

> It's silly to be so exact about this. It's silly for scientists to be always surprised by finding some older stuff over and over again as they scratch more of the earth. Statistically speaking, there is no reason that the oldest stuff would be found first, yet you keep seeing headlines "this is older than what we thought" making them look like complete naive people every single time.