Bertrand Russell Quote

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Ch. 2: The Place of Science in a Liberal Education - Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918)