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QUOTATION:If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ATTRIBUTION:Isaac Newton (1642–1727), British physicist, mathematician, universal genius. Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675.

With reference to his dependency on Galileo’s and Kepler’s work in physics and astronomy.
 
 
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