Re: Inventions

> 
> 
> Brian Bilderback wrote:
> 
> > KH.Ranitzsch Wrote:
> >
> > >Today's culture, science and
> > >technology is a product of many people in many place and times.
Claims to
> > >singular greatness in this respect are usually pretty silly.
> >
> > I believe one person (could have been C.S. Lewis) said that the
people so
> > revered for modern advancements were "Midgets standing on the
shoulders of
> > giants."
> 
> Newton used that metaphor to modestly describe his contributions.

I'm very fond of another Newton quote:

"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and
diverting myself in now
and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim

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