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standing on the shoulders of giants??

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gonzo00 | 13:16 Sat 04th Apr 2009 | Quotes
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who gave the above speech and when??
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The phrase was used by Bernard of Chartres in the early 1100s AD and repeated by Isaac Newton in a letter dated 5th February 1676. As part of a speech, as such, I have no idea.
My English master used it all the time.
If I have seen further than other men - it is by standing on the shoulders of giats. Or words to that effect.

That is one of my favourite quotes.
It always reminds me of my dad.

(Oasis also had a song about it...)
It reminds me that I have a �2 coin in my pocket 'cos that's what is written around the edge.
Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) is a Western metaphor meaning "One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past"; a contemporary interpretation. However, the metaphor was first recorded in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres. It was famously used by the seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton who wrote it as: Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident

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