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Read & copy
“If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Meaning & context
Newton credits earlier and contemporary intellectual work as part of what made his own advances possible, framing discovery as cumulative rather than wholly solitary.
Source details
Newton to Robert Hooke, Cambridge, February 5, 1675/76, represented by the Newton Project normalized transcription. The historical letter uses older spelling; this record follows the project’s normalized “farther” and “shoulders of giants” wording.