stand on the shoulders of giants
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
4
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants."
- "In this 200th anniversary year of our Constitution, you and I stand on the shoulders of giants—men whose words and deeds put wind in the sails of freedom."
- ""In the western scientific tradition we stand on the shoulders of giants," says Young, echoing both Torvalds and Sir Isaac Newton before him."
- "It is useful, though, to remember the conclusion of the maxim: we stand on the shoulders of giants to see better and farther than they."
Etymology
Extracted from dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants. Often attributed to Isaac Newton (see quotations), but in other forms already in use earlier.