 | David Brewster - 1855 - 518 pages
...yield. But, in the mean time, you defer too much to my ability in searching into this subject. What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much...considering the colours of thin plates. If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. But I make no question you have divers very... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1870 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...replying to Robert Hooke, he says, ' You defer too much to my ability in searching into this subject. What Descartes did was a good step; you have added much several ways. ... If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' In his daily life he was... | |
 | 1873 - 258 pages
...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 pages
...on the subject of Light : — "You defer too much to my ability in searching into this subject. What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much...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,... | |
 | American Mathematical Society - 1916 - 580 pages
...sentences: "But, in the mean time, you defer too much to my ability in searching into this subject. What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much...especially in considering the colours of thin plates. // / have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." * L'Enseignement mathematique,... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pages
...Accepting the offer of a private correspondence, he went on to praise Hooke's contribution to optics. "What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further... | |
 | Joseph Telushkin - 1987 - 240 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants "' (Brewsler's " Life of Newton, 
