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" If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. "
The Age of Rand: Imagining
An Objectivist Future World - Página 7

por Frederick Cookinham - 2005 - 488 páginas
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 12

1882 - 612 páginas
...and noble men and women have written into books the best thoughts of the best moments of their lives. Sir Isaac Newton said: " If I have seen farther than...because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." SELECTED. INSTITUTE INSTRUCTORS AND INSTRUCTION. BT FH CRAOO, •WHEELING, W. VA. What kind of person...
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The Earth and Its Life

A. Waddingham Seers - 1922 - 216 páginas
...nevertheless the crown of a structure built by the thought of many men, and this he recognized, saying : " If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood upon the shoulders of the giants." It would be impossible in a short space to describe the developments...
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The Earth and Its Life

A. Waddingham Seers - 1922 - 216 páginas
...nevertheless the crown of a structure built by the thought of many men, and this he recognized, saying : " If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood upon the shoulders of the giants." It would be impossible in a short space to describe the developments...
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and ...

Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 páginas
...mighty genius and the genius at hand to reap the harvest. Newton himself on one occasion remarked, "If I have seen farther [than other men], it is because I have stood upon the shoulders of giants." It is indeed true that his forerunners, especially men like Galileo,...
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Copyright Law Revision: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 3 of the ..., Parte 1

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1966 - 678 páginas
...has not borrowed ideas from his predecessors? I am sure Sir Isaac Newton spoke for all of us when he said, "If I have seen farther than other men, it is...because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." I think Miss O'Callaghan's letter is typical of the many which have been written by other State organization...
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Anti-inflation Proposals: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking, Housing ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - 1978 - 814 páginas
...why he was able to make so many great scientific discoveries. He responded; "if I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Unfortunately, when we talk about economics, we mostly stand on each others feet. For example, according...
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Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities

Donald Winslow Fiske, Richard A. Shweder - 1986 - 400 páginas
...enshrined the fact in one of his more famous comments on his own work: "If I have seen farther than most men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Newton, brilliant man, not only did science consummately, but also understood its social organiza-...
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Three Hundred Years of Gravitation

Stephen Hawking, S. W. Hawking, W. Israel - 1987 - 712 páginas
...stature that can be compared with Newton. Newton is reported to have said: 'If I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.' This remark is even more true of Einstein who stood on the shoulders of Newton. Both Newton and Einstein...
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Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neuroscience: Three Approaches to the Mind : a ...

Edward M. Hundert - 1989 - 360 páginas
...from those very energies. When Newton wrote of his revolutionary advances in the Prin, ctpia (1686) 'If I have seen farther than other men it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants,' he himself became a giant from whose shoulders Einstein could use his reason to enlarge the context...
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Discovering the Cosmos

Robert C. Bless - 1996 - 788 páginas
...or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." "If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." —Sir Isaac Newton (I642-I727)* ' The second of Newton's remarks...
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