[vwinsyee]

"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." -- Isaac Newton (1676)

[swombat]

Hilariously enough, he apparently said that to put down Hooke, who was quite short. It was meant as an insult.

[DanInTokyo]

Not necessarily even the shoulders of giants (with all due respect to Newton), but on the shoulders of normal, inquisitive men and women who are standing on the shoulders of countless other normal men and women.

It's turtles all the way down.

[umruehren]

"You can stand on the shoulders of giants, or a big enough pile of dwarfs. Works either way." - (wish I knew the source)

[DanInTokyo]

Sounds Pratchett-esque to me...

[claudius]

Which is a pretty big feat by itself in a time when most people were afraid of standing up from their crouching positions.

[flagnog]

I always say that I'm a midget standing on the shoulders of giants.