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To: bikepacker67
At a physics conference in 1960:

We sit with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

71 posted on 01/29/2006 5:31:05 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: RightWhale
Isn't that:

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand

? ;-)

Which to me, seems always the case. I mean... even I know more about the Atom then did J.J. Thomson - and it ain't because I'm gigantic!

80 posted on 01/29/2006 5:38:57 PM PST by bikepacker67
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