Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

Abstract

In a letter to Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton wrote, “if I have seen farther than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” While I claim neither the intellectual ability of Sir Isaac Newton, nor superior distance vision to others, as editor in chief of the JCI for the last five years, I clearly have stood on the shoulders of giants — and have benefitted greatly from it.