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If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton The great appear great in our eyes Only because we a
by gnosis 15y ago
If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton
The great appear great in our eyes
Only because we are kneeling.
Let us rise!
--Elisée Loustalot
- Lost_BiomedE 15y agoThe Isaac Newton quote is pretty funny. Robert Hooke claimed that Newton's work copied his own. Newton wrote the quote as an insult when replying to Hooke, who was very short. The original variation, not Newton, did have the expected meaning, though.