To see farther standing on the shoulders of franks and lieb, who stand on the shoulders of meyer and overton, who stand on bernard's shoulders, who stands...

摘要

We enjoyed the recently published article by Perouansky and its accompanying Editorial and the aphorism opening the editorial "On the Shoulders of the Giants," known also with the acronym of OTSOG. The dazzling suggestion of the aphorism persists also after all these centuries and still allows to draw some lessons and make some reflections. Indeed, sometimes [in science] ... "leaps are often made by knight's-move progress, partly forward but partly sideways" and the progress can be quite slow.