In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

— Albert Einstein, The Progress of Science (1921)

Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=453muO-6N4kC&pg=PA579#v=onepage&q&f=false

A paraphrase in a 1921 Scientific Monthly report of his remarks at the National Academy of Sciences.

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