I have built a monument more lasting than bronze
and set higher than the pyramids of the kings.
It cannot be destroyed by gnawing rain
or wild north wind, by the procession
of immeasurable years or by the flight of time
—Horace, 23 BC
26
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
—Francis Bacon, 1595
If you seek Hamilton’s monument [in Washington, DC], look around. You are living in it.
We […] live in Hamilton’s country.
—George Will, 1992
I would rather have men asking why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato
27
[Lise Meitner’s] work was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Otto Hahn.
—Renate Feyl, 1981
The seeds we have sown are germinating under others’ names.
—Alexander Gorodnitsky, 1959
28
I must consider the organizer as more important that the discoverer.
—Wolfgang Ostwald, 1927
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the
idea first occurs. Not the man who finds a grain of new and precious quality but to him who
sows it, reaps it, grinds it and feeds the world on it.
—Francis Darwin, 1914
Discoveries are usually not made by one man alone, but […] many brains and many hands
are needed before a discovery is made for which one man receives the credit.
—Henry E. Sigerist, 1951
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
—Anonymous
29
26
From his Ode III.30; translation by David West.
27
As quoted, without a date, by Plutarch in the early second century AD.
28
A verse from a popular Russian song, in a fair but prosaic translation.
29
This wisdom and its variants are attributed to many, including Ronald Reagan and Harry S.
Truman, with the earliest (circa 1863) attribution to some Farther Stirckland, but I could not find a
reliable confirmation of any of these authorships.
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and set higher than the pyramids of the kings.
It cannot be destroyed by gnawing rain
or wild north wind, by the procession
of immeasurable years or by the flight of time
—Horace, 23 BC
26
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
—Francis Bacon, 1595
If you seek Hamilton’s monument [in Washington, DC], look around. You are living in it.
We […] live in Hamilton’s country.
—George Will, 1992
I would rather have men asking why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato
27
[Lise Meitner’s] work was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Otto Hahn.
—Renate Feyl, 1981
The seeds we have sown are germinating under others’ names.
—Alexander Gorodnitsky, 1959
28
I must consider the organizer as more important that the discoverer.
—Wolfgang Ostwald, 1927
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the
idea first occurs. Not the man who finds a grain of new and precious quality but to him who
sows it, reaps it, grinds it and feeds the world on it.
—Francis Darwin, 1914
Discoveries are usually not made by one man alone, but […] many brains and many hands
are needed before a discovery is made for which one man receives the credit.
—Henry E. Sigerist, 1951
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
—Anonymous
29
26
From his Ode III.30; translation by David West.
27
As quoted, without a date, by Plutarch in the early second century AD.
28
A verse from a popular Russian song, in a fair but prosaic translation.
29
This wisdom and its variants are attributed to many, including Ronald Reagan and Harry S.
Truman, with the earliest (circa 1863) attribution to some Farther Stirckland, but I could not find a
reliable confirmation of any of these authorships.
208
On the World and Time, Life and Death