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• If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
  -- Isaac Newton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand....
• If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
  -- Isaac Newton In the sciences, we are now uniquely priviledged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand....
• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
  -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676 -- in H....
• If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
  -- Hal Abelso...
• You cannot see farther than others by standing on the feet of giants.
• I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore
  and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me....