#predecessors

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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