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I mean, simply, that the ideas generated by Newtown and Einstein arose from creative interpretation and addition to earlier work, observation, and thought, and if those two individuals hadn't proposed what they did, someone else would have. Eventually. It's the "eventually" that makes us grateful -- maybe progress would have been delayed decades or even hundreds of years.
Mills feels the same way about his work -- he got their first, but someone else would have arrived at it eventually. Also, he is very humble and impersonal about the fact that much of his character and insights are the result of preparation by circumstance. He knows he's much smarter than most, but doesn't make claims to being a unique light in that regard.
Erik Baard
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