Comic #7269: fame

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Panel 1: Child: "I hope to be the best scientist ever someday."

Panel 2: Adult: "Oh, son, it doesn’t work like that. That’s 'great man' theory."

Panel 3: Adult: "Much of what is called calculus was worked out before Newton and Leibniz. Much of relativity was worked about by people like Lorentz, Minkowski, Hilbert…"

Panel 4: Adult: "The truth is that great scientific theories are built piece by piece, but often the credit goes to the person who took the last step to arrive at the full theory."

Panel 5: Child: "So, you’re saying I should do my best to just be a contributor?"

Panel 6: Adult: "I’m saying take the last step and cite no one."