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It's standing on the shoulders of giants, and the one on top gets to reap all the benefits.
by amelius 1y ago
It's standing on the shoulders of giants, and the one on top gets to reap all the benefits.
- mattkrause 1y agoEven that quote is a bit of a disservice to modern science: it's a massive pyramid made of thousands and thousands of individual contributions, including many bits of deep background and outright "failures". Biology is tough in that you can't just "reason" your way to success; it often really does require trying something to see if an approach works.