It took all day to do so, evidently because I’m old and slow, but this morning’s post eventually got round to reminding me of this cartoon, the context of which is described here. Was that really in 1992? That was twenty years ago!
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October 31, 2012 at 11:16 am
I suspect I’ve shared the feelings expressed in the cartoon at times.
October 31, 2012 at 11:40 am
It was Murray Gell-Mann who said “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs”.
October 31, 2012 at 2:25 pm
And I seem to remember saying that if I haven’t seen as far as others, it’s because I had a dwarf standing on my shoulders.