 | 1856 - 598 pagine
...enterprise Than minstrels in the age of old romance To their own Merlin's magic lore ascribed." SOUTH EY. seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants .' " ? The author of Raymond de Monthavlt, not to mention Mr. Morgan's learned theological works, may well afford... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1870 - 502 pagine
...brief and beautiful sentence, so expressive of genuine humility and appreciation of others : — " If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." It has been said that there is no connexion between merit and modesty except the letter m, but all... | |
 | 1873 - 258 pagine
...who added more than any other man to the domain of physical science, says, in a letter to Hooke : ' If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' Ho man is more ready to acknowledge the aid be has received from others thau the gen nine scientist... | |
 | 1910 - 470 pagine
...good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in considering the colours of thin plates. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants "' (Brewsler's " Life of Newton," i., 142). Newton, in his speculations on the disintegration of atoms,... | |
 | Joseph Telushkin - 1987 - 240 pagine
...has ever bet enough on the winning horse. cited by Richard Sasuly (Bookies and Bettors) Gratitude: If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton (letter to Robert Hooke, 1677) Hegelian Theory: In the last century, critics of Hegelian... | |
 | David L. Hull - 1990 - 600 pagine
...1968: 96). As an example, he quotes Newton's remark in a letter to Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) that, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Merton also notes that the main purpose of this letter is for Newton to defend his own priority for... | |
 | Roy F. Ellen, Ernest Gellner, Roy Frank Ellen, Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism Ernest Gellner, Grazyna Kubica, Janusz Mucha - 1988 - 304 pagine
...which I adopt may be introduced by means of two metaphors. Isaac Newton is reported to have confessed: 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'. His is, in fact, a reformulation of an old aphorism, originating in the twelfth century, most probably... | |
 | James Woodress - 1989 - 654 pagine
...on her fiction. Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to his rival scientist Robert Hooke wrote in 1676 that "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." I feel somewhat the same in writing Gather's biography four decades after her death. I have built on... | |
 | Keith Oatley - 1992 - 548 pagine
...the writing of many books, and the application of many minds to the problem. Newton modestly wrote to Hooke in 1676: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" (Anthony, 1960, p. 209). A result of the cultural transmission of ideas is that when an intellectual... | |
 | Paul V. Malven - 1993 - 280 pagine
...of the book which rest solely with the author. The scientist/philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton, wrote " 'If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. " The present author believes strongly in the sentiment of that opinion. Researchers in neuroendocrinology,... | |
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. 
