Sciences are Monuments Devoted to the Public Good
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.
Académie des sciences (France), de Coulomb Charles-Augustin, Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie des sciences (1778)
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Each of us owes a tribute to them according to our talents, either improving what is there, or carrying society to even greater heights.
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