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Newton's cheap trick to get famous is not giving a name to something everybody knows. It's standing on the shoulder of giants.
by zupatol 18y ago
Newton's cheap trick to get famous is not giving a name to something everybody knows. It's standing on the shoulder of giants.
- zupatol 18y agoMaybe my post is not very clear. Seth Godin implies that Newton became famous because of something that amounts to a cheap marketing trick, instead of just being a genius who revolutionized math and physics. I say if you want to find something cheap in what Newton has done, the only thing you can do is look at what modesty made him say about himself:'If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'. So now if you vote my post down, I'll know it's not a misunderstanding.