He believed being imprisoned (even if only for a single night) only kept his body imprisoned. His mind was still free and imprisonment only further fueled his philosophical thinking.
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d is the answer because He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Death of a
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I think it's "scolded in a mild way" according to the context. Sorry if I'm wrong
What it means is that he wouldn't have been able to get where he got if it hadn't been for the scientific achievements of his predecessors. If it hadn't been for these "giants" that enabled him to see so far, he wouldn't have been able to make all the discoveries that he did. For those coming after him, he was a giant that enabled them, and so laws and theories and scientific knowledge always increases based on the knowledge before it.