0100,0100,0100It appears not to be Thierry of Chartres, here's what I found Times New Romanat http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0162b.shtml Newton may have borrowed the phrase "on the shoulders of giants" from earlier writers, but the specific quote that is referenced on our site is his and his alone. The phrase is indeed a commonly cited one, as the following examples illustrate. left"We are like dwarfs standing [or sitting] upon the shoulders of giants, and so able to see more and see farther than the ancients." - Bernard of Chartres, circa 1130 left"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size." - John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, 1159 left"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself." - Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621 left"Dwarfs on the shoulders of giants see further than the giants themselves." - Stella Didacus, Eximii verbi divini CONCIONATORIS ORDINNIS MINORUM Regularis Observantiae, 1622 left"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two." - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651 left"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 1676 left"Newton won the race in part because, as he put it, he had stood on the shoulders of giants and in part because he just happened to be the biggest giant of them all." - Alan Cromer, Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science, 1993 left"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." - Gerald Holton left"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." - Hal Abelson ---