"For indeed it is one of the lessons of the history of science that each age steps on the shoulders of the ages which have gone before. The value of each age is not its own, but is in part, in large part, a debt to its forerunners. And this age of ours, if, like its predecessors, it can boast of something of which it is proud, would, could it read the future, doubtless find much also of which it would be ashamed."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomLiberal Party (UK) politiciansFellows of the Royal SocietyUniversity of Cambridge facultyPhysiologists
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:Compare: Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676), "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants."
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Michael Foster (physiologist)
Sir Michael Foster KCB FRS VMH (8 March 1836 – 29 January 1907) was an English physiologist. He was instrumental in organizing the Cambridge Biological School and acted as Secretary of the Royal Society.
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