Our obsession with new

Photo by Edi Libedinsky on Unsplash

Nothing is new. Everything is derivative. We’re all building on what has gone before.

Look at Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726). Physicist, astronomer, philosopher and author. A key figure in the scientific revolution. A great mathematician and one of the most influential scientists in history. Yet despite this glowing CV (resumé), he humbly said this of his work: “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of…