Comment by bridgesandballoons on For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books · 2010-03-03T02:02:40.999Z · LW · GW

"A good analysis book doesn’t summarize Newton it digests his insights and presents them as part of a grander theory. "

Exactly. And I want to be in charge of doing that for myself, so I suppose I'll continue to read original sources.