People then may laugh at all we thought we knewīut they’ll be standing on our shoulders when they brag about how far they can see It’s like the pieces of a puzzle that they handed on to you and me That doesn’t mean our predecessors were fools You know we’re always redefining and refining the rules (bridge) Each generation making new ways to questionĪnd each new breakthrough just a part of the progression He gave us three laws of motion and one more just for gravity Said there had to be one force to rule them all Newton knew the secret when he saw an apple fall He gave us orbital mechanics but he couldn’t figure why it should be Tried to work it out with geometrical tools Kepler said it had to run on rational rules Pulling back the curtain, opening up the doorīut it’s only when we’re standing on the shoulders of giants (chorus) You know that each generation learns a little bit more Then Galileo built a telescope and said, “Hey, it sure looks that way.” Pictured all the planets going ‘round the Sun He put the planets in the sky, moving round the Earth every day Unrolled a scroll and made a map of it all
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