| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 41418 |
| QUOTATION: | If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Isaac Newton (16421727), British physicist, mathematician, universal genius. Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675.
With reference to his dependency on Galileos and Keplers work in physics and astronomy. |
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