Wise words

«Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris incidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea» Juan de Salisbury-Metalogicon III, 4

Sir Isaac Newton, 1675, wrote in a letter to Robert Hooke "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"

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