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Biography - Isaac Newton:

English mathematician, astronomer and physicist.
Born: 1643 - Died: 1727
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton


Note 

Note



Meaning: Standing on the shoulders of giants is a metaphor which means "using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress.



If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.


Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wenn ich weiter sehen konnte, so deshalb, weil ich auf den Schultern von Riesen stand.
Isaac Newton

French
Si j'ai vu plus loin, c'est en me plaçant sur des épaules de géants.
Isaac Newton



See also 

See also...



If you see a great master, you will always find that he used what was good in his predecessors, and that it was this which made him great.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and farther than our predecessors, it is not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.
Bernard of Chartres



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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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