Re: Pride and Arrogance Re: American Attitudes (was Re: Hardworking?)

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 03:41 PM 5/29/01 -0500, Steve Sloan wrote:

>In other words, this discussion about which country invented what
>is pretty simplistic. Each and every advance is based on earlier
>advances, which were in turn based on even earlier advances.
>Everybody "stands on the shoulders of giants," as Newton put it.


And as someone pointed out more recently, with such a vast number of 
scientists being alive during the twentieth century and the tremendous rate 
of scientific advance made during that time, "Some of us are privileged to 
stand side-by-side with those giants upon whose shoulders we stand."


-- Ronn!  :)