In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand
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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!
I heard the quote as it was given. It was cold that day: the Hudson River was frozen, and nobody had yet heard of Global Warming or Algore.