Sir Isaac Newton – on the Shoulders of Giants
My daughter Holly gave me a calendar for Christmas that offers a bit of sage advice each day. Today’s quotation from Sir Isaac Newton is as germane today as it was during his life 300 years ago: “If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
What humility and gratitude from a man of such gigantic intellect and pivotal contribution to the world! We today are all beneficiaries of giants like Newton and others, on whose visionary shoulders we stand.
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So you think Newton was a gigantic intellect? Think again; he was one of many troublemakers. See here.
http://ejnorman.blogspot.com/2007/07/those-pesky-academics.html
Maybe we should say that he was a pesky academic with a gigantic intellect! 🙂