Source of Stephen Hawking quote

---an apt comment on how science, and indeed the whole of civilization, is a series of incremental advances, each building on what went before.
---Stephen Hawking


The quote here is from page ix in
Stephen Hawking's book On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy,
Running Press, Philadelphia, 2002.
This book in turn is a collection of reprints of original classics in the
sciences. The book title "On the shoulders of giants" is a quote from Isaac
Newton.

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---an apt comment on how science, and indeed the whole of civilization, is a series of incremental advances, each building on what went before. ---Stephen Hawking

---an apt comment on how science, and indeed the whole of civilization, is a series of incremental advances, each building on what went before.
---Stephen Hawking