Which is why it is said that, if we do it right, we "stand on the shoulders of giants". E.g., we don't each need to reinvent calculus, Sir Isaac Newton and Got

Which is why it is said that, if we do it right, we "stand on the shoulders of giants". E.g., we don't each need to reinvent calculus, Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz did that already... [Edit typo: of/if]