No one really starts anything new, Mrs Nemur. Everyone buil… - Daniel Keyes

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No one really starts anything new, Mrs Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

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Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American author most famous for his Hugo award-winning short story Flowers for Algernon and the Nebula award-winning novel into which he developed the story.

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