Standing on shoulders

I read about the Nobel prize 2025 in medicine. On immune-system research.

Bit by bit over years scientific knowledge & understanding is built. Every new generation stands on shoulders.

A lifetime is devoted to extend or to gain a few drops of new understanding. Over lifetimes, these drops build up the fountain at which every new generation learns. Slow process this learning but a work across generations. Every new set of people learns what has been understood so far, and then builds on that understanding. Which becomes the new ground to learn.

Guess it is a worthy pursuit to devote oneself to see what the ages have seen over time, and see whether standing on those shoulders, if you can see something else. Perhaps leave it as a note or two for those coming after.