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Who is quoted as saying "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"?

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Who is quoted as saying "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"?
posted Sep 9, 2021 by Anuradha Tabyal

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Isaac Newton
He wrote this in a letter to Robert Hooke in 1676. It is not original, with the concept going back to at least 1159.

answer Sep 10, 2021 by Samardeep Acharya
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