George Paget Thomson Quote

The goddess of learning is fabled to have sprung full-grown from the brain of Zeus, but it is seldom that a scientific conception is born in its final form, or owns a single parent. More often it is the product of a series of minds, each in turn modifying the ideas of those that came before, and providing material for those that come after.

Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941, Electronic Waves, Elsevier Publishing Co. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1965