If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.— Isaac Newton

Ideas build on ideas. The primitive wheel, lever, awl, pulley, diode and transistor built on each other to become the modern computer.— Dan Zadra

Original ideas come from reassembling old knowledge in new ways.— Leon Botstein

Originality is not just doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.— Marie […]

To put something in the world that was not there before, you have to be able to see that which others before you have overlooked.— George […]

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat’s ear. But only the wisest of cats would think to look there.— Scott Love

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.— George Orwell

Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.— Susanne K. Langer