Because we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size. --John of Salisbury, Metalogicon
Cedalion is the dwarf carried on the shoulders of the giant Orion. Like the dwarf, I want to see further by drawing on the wisdom of people much wiser than I ever will be.
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