In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

