The Metalogicon of John Salisbury
- Kind
- Book
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Retrieved
- Jan 13, 2012
- ISBN
- pA3VbvUf67
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Seeing Farther From the Shoulders of Giants
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.