 | 1855 - 946 pagina’s
...this subject/ he says ; ' what Des Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways. ... If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' This elegant and not undeserved compliment was enough to satisfy even the famehunting spirit of Robert... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pagina’s
...searching into this subject. What Descartes did was a good step; you have added much several ways. ... If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' In his daily life he was temperate and abstemious, indifferent to luxury and indulgence and the minor... | |
 | 1879 - 912 pagina’s
...refrangibility. Modest in self-estimate, in writing to Hooke of some of his discoveries about light he said, "If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." He was slow to publish, fearing that he might be drawn into disputes ; he was reluctant " to part with... | |
 | American Mathematical Society - 1916 - 580 pagina’s
...step. You have added much several ways, and especially in considering the colours of thin plates. // / have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." * L'Enseignement mathematique, vol. 7, 1905, p. 7. t Works, edited by Elwin and Courthope, vol. 4,... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - 1973 - 639 pagina’s
...come much later from Merlon's typewriter. In the footnote discussing the origins of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants," is to be found the first indication of an abiding interest that would result finally in the book On... | |
 | Barton C. Hacker, James M. Grimwood - 1977 - 662 pagina’s
...that succeeded it. Titan II could carry men to new heights, allowing them to say with Isaac Newton, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."8 Titan might also help to underscore the living relevance of Newtonian science in an age dominated... | |
 | Barton C. Hacker, James M. Grimwood - 1978 - 666 pagina’s
...that succeeded it. Titan II could carry men to new heights, allowing them to say with Isaac Newton, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."8 Titan might also help to underscore the living relevance of Newtonian science in an age dominated... | |
 | Matei Călinescu - 1987 - 416 pagina’s
...searching into this subject. What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much in several ways. ... If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."10 With the omission of any explicit reference to the "dwarfs," Newton's "giants" is meant... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman - 1990 - 388 pagina’s
...their dependence upon a cultural heritage to which they lay no differential claims. Newton's remark - "If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - expresses at once a sense of indebtedness to the common heritage and recognition of the essentially... | |
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If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. 
