To: PatrickHenry
"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulder of giants." ~Isaac Newton
33 posted on
11/23/2005 6:28:31 PM PST by
mikrofon
(Science!)
To: mikrofon
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." ~ Albert Einstein
-PJ
To: mikrofon
"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulder of giants." ~Isaac Newton He took it from Lukanus.
45 posted on
11/23/2005 6:39:56 PM PST by
A. Pole
(Marcus Lucanus: "Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.")
To: mikrofon
My understanding of that quote is that he was directing it to to someone else (rather than referring to himself) and that he was not speaking in a flattering tone.
Though I could be mistaken.
51 posted on
11/23/2005 6:43:21 PM PST by
Dimensio
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To: mikrofon
"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulder of giants." ~Isaac Newton
Some genius! He stole that line from Joe Biden.
263 posted on
11/24/2005 8:25:08 AM PST by
kenavi
("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)
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