Isaac Newton Quotes

If I Have Seen A Little Further It Is By Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants.
- From A Letter To Robert Hooke Dated February 5th, 1676.
The Metaphor Was First Recorded In 1159 By John Of Salisbury And Attributed To Bernard Of Chartres:
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis Nos Esse Quasi Nanos, Gigantium Humeris Insidentes, Ut Possimus Plura Eis Et Remotiora Videre, Non Utique Proprii Visus Acumine, Aut Eminentia Corporis, Sed Quia In Altum Subvenimur Et Extollimur Magnitudine Gigantea.

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