You know what's funny about that quote? It was actually intended as a clever dig about Robert Hooke's height[0]. Newton and Hooke had a longstanding feud and th

You know what's funny about that quote? It was actually intended as a clever dig about Robert Hooke's height[0]. Newton and Hooke had a longstanding feud and this was another shot in that war. The quote itself is much older with the oldest known attribution from John of Salisbury, but it's possibly older still. [0] http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0162b.shtml http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0162b.shtml