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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

Bernard of Chartres
Giants, Classic, Shoulders
Quoted in John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159) See Robert Burton 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.