...see farther than a giant himself. . . . Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy, 6th ed., 1651. "/// have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke. Feb. 5, 1675. Gerlach had thought of nerve fibers arising exclusively...

...were large, but much smaller than our debts to him. One can say of Smith what Newton said of himself: "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." That is appropriate to comparisons with predecessors but not to comparisons with contemporaries: they...

...examples make clear, Merton's approach to the classics — represented by the saying attributed to Newton, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" — served to distinguish funclionalist empirical sociology from the approach of the Chicago School....

...Saturday. See: Bertrand Russel, Religion and Science, New York, Oxford University Press, 1961, p. 52. 72 "If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Newton. loadstone, after which it is able to point to the south. But it always inclines slightly to...

...Eastern studies in medicine, biology, mathematics, physics, and astronomy. Newton was right in saying, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." And faculties must remind themselves and their students, as they seek to organize knowledge, that the...

...discursive strategies for telling the success story. 2 Winning the Prize Nobel Laureates Accept the Award If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton, on his scientific successes / think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times,...

...rapid action by governments possible, thus, once again, illustrating Isaac Newton's famous remark: "If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Without the discovery of the ozone layer in the nineteenth century, largely out of academic interest,...

...an extension of knowledge. In this connection Merton loves to recall Newton's well-known aphorism : "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,"11 in order to indicate the dependence of discovery and innovation on the existing cultural...

...representative of the profession. Whereas the great Newton (16) told us in his famous epigram 'lf l have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants', some of the not-so-greats, heading research groups of fifty or more students, postdocs, and technicians,...

...im 17. Jahrhundert war die Metapher weit verbreitet4. Um 1675 schrieb Isaac Newton in einem Brief: "If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" (G. Sarton, 1935, 107 f.). C) Die Wahrheit als Tochter der Zeit Auch in dieser Metapher, "veritas filia...