Pigmeos

 

 

Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea

Bernardo de Chartres

 

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Robert Burton

 

Pygmaeos gigantum humeris impositos, plusquam ipsos gigantes videre

Diego de Estella

 

If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants

Isaac Newton