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Very often it is impossible to find any originator for an idea generated during discussion and critique. Its meaning changes repeatedly; it is adapted and be- comes common property. Accordingly it achieves a superindividual value, and becomes an axiom, a guideline for thinking.
--- Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and development of a scientific fact.
Similar to Robert Noyce's account of his invention of the IC.